The Solitary Reaper

Many people think that incarceration is like a vacation at a country club until they see what really happens behind the bars. Offenders do not get the help that they need when they are in prison. When offenders go to prison and when they are let out nothing has changed and they usually end up back in prison. The rates of population have gone up and prisons are becoming over populated. Craig Jones and Don Weatherburn proves, “The sentenced adult prison population has increased by about 20 per…

Inside of correctional facilities across the world are individuals who continuously break the rules, who cannot seem to conform to societies norms or laws. Unfortunately, some of those same individuals continue to break rules while incarcerated, and what more punishment could there be than losing one’s freedom? Well for some, minor punishments can be administered in the form of being locked in their cell for a specific time, missing some of their recreation periods, or not being allowed visits.…

C., 225). This can build up anger because they are not able to handle what they can’t do. “Anger “just boils up,” and an episode of loss of control can gain an inmate like this additional months or years in solitary” (Rhodes, Lorna, 54). If they act out within the prison and broke the rules, this will cause their release to be delayed which causes more problems for the inmate in the near future. These problems can be with them for long amounts of time in their…

By and large, Ava quickly reached the conclusion she was no longer simply a woman seducing men for espionage, now she was a political criminal too. Realizing her larceny and godless existence might lead to her death, Ava plotted how she would use her charms to get through what she figured would be a lengthy imprisonment, if not torture and death. Every few days, when they shoved a bowl of gruel at her and some stale cheese, she flirted with the guards. When they questioned her, she followed…

We are expected to discover new things about ourselves and our morality by using the online simulation titled, “Should You Kill The Fat Man?” By navigating through a scenario involving a runaway train and an evil fat man, the user of the simulation should finish the scenario feeling as if they learned something new about themselves. To begin, the answer four preliminary questions that establish our morality, and the extremes we will go to in order to make the best decision. Next, the simulation…

I stared at her from across the table, lying crisscross among a pile of green, purple, and yellow women. It was love at first sight, but she did not know that I even existed. Her name was Tickle Me Pink—at least, that was what it read on her label. She was slender, her sides ceaseless, and her tip never used. Despite all of her perfections, she looked lonely amongst her friends. Tropical Rain Forest, the foreign exchange student from the other box, was no help, for she was only concerned with…

Juvenile Justice: Mental Health and Solitary Confinement Kalief Browder was only sixteen years old when he was taken to the precinct in New York for allegedly stealing a backpack. He was detained at Rikers Island hoping to eventual return home soon. Little did Kalief know that he would not be returning home anytime soon. Instead of being home, he was often times kept in solitary confinement. Solitary confinement is likely to increase mental health issues such as anxiety, paranoia, depression…

“I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one’s mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything.” Nelson Mandela spent twenty-seven years in prison, and close to six of those years were spent in solitary confinement. His first hand experience brings to light how truly torturous solitary confinement is. Despite how awful being locked in a stone box by…

Imagine being a 16-year-old boy in jail. A fight breaks out and you are transported to solitary confinement. The Room is small you can barely move around. You have been in solitary for months or even years. You start to develop symptoms such as difficulty sleeping, Suicide, Insomnia, mood swings and withdrawal. These are some of the things our youth must deal with daily. Many statistics have shown if a person isn’t mentally ill when entering an isolation unit, by the time they are released,…

being held in solitary confinement in the United States right now, and that these 80,000 people come only from the 38 states that still utilize solitary confinement in their prison systems? If the goal of prison really is rehabilitation, the inmates should be helped, not harmed. Solitary confinement is inhumane treatment and therefore, it should be abolished. For those of you who don’t know much about solitary confinement, here is some background: not all states still incorporate solitary…