The Solitary Reaper

Her parents have abandoned her while openly admitting to her that they regretted conceiving her. She is then placed in solitary confinement for almost a year of which she manages to be strong enough to push through. As the series progress, her true colours begin to show when she becomes less timid and becomes outspoken. She has been deprived of both her freedom and happiness…

This can make a person become delusional, and even turn on themselves. Psychologically speaking, the solitary confinement she endures has an overall negative effect on her. This can be seen in the novel when Jack is talking about when Ma is "gone". This is when Ma gets into a state of depression and lays in bed all day, and can 't get out. As we can see this is a direct example of how solitary confinement has impacted Ma on a psychological…

While there are many flaws in the U.S prison system, one of the most harmful aspects is the use of solitary confinement. Inmates who are kept under solitary confinement reside in a single room without human interaction for twenty-three hours a day. The sentencing of solitary…

The article that I chose to read was “Solitary Confinement and Mental Illness is the U.S prisons: A Challenge for Medical Ethics” by Metzner and Fellner. The main point that is consistent throughout the article is that solitary confinement has negative psychotic effects on prisoners especially those with pre-existing mental illness. These effects including anxiety, depression, and even paranoia as would be expected of being confined in a small cell completely alone. In the article it strongly…

have had a limited chance of survival. Today, we are in a social constructed world. You cannot avoid human interaction easily. However, some of the ones that have are in reprimand. As of 2012, it has been estimated that 25,000 people are held in solitary confinement in state and federal prisons (Kumar). As humans are programmed naturally to display social behaviors, social confinement can elicit social desensitization during and/or after inmates are released. Archaic humans depended on others…

factors to take into consideration, as well as several different opportunities to rehabilitate prisoner’s that may have had a better outcome on those prisoners who have or will experience a long term solitary confinement within their sentenced time. The issue with having prisoners locked in solitary confinement for extended…

In the weeks leading up to September 20th, I was working on a research paper for my Writing 101 class. I decided my papers topic should be on solitary confinement almost right of the bat, but that eventually turned out to be problematic. I looked at everything I could find on solitary confinement, even things that were similar to solitary confinement, so I could have the best understanding as possible on the subject. Unfortunately, my research assignment became extremely difficult due to me not…

Once called the silent cell by Dicken’s solitary confinement is now referred to by many different terms; isolation, segregation, special management, restricted housing, security housing units, or the hole to name a few. It has also been used for many different purposes in the prison system. It has been used for reformation, behavior modification, punishment, protection, prison management and control (Shalov, 2009). But no matter what you call it or what role you use it for it still remains to…

Solitary confinement is the defined as “a punishment program requiring isolation of an inmate in a cell” (Allen et al., 2016). It is a punishment within a prison that attempts to punish institutional rule violations and “protect” prisoners that are unsafe to stay among the general population. Solitary confinement is used frequently in the American justice system to punish and control inmate behavior if it doesn’t meet the expectations of the institution in which they are incarcerated. The…

This justice article defines, examines, and evaluates super-maximum correctional facilities, their individual state policies, and certain characteristics incarcerated inmates exhibit. This article provides insight into how various states’ super-maximum facilities operate, from utilizing specific criteria to define and admit a super-maximum inmate, to how each individual facility deals with these problem inmates. To better understand the use of admission criteria to define an inmate, one must…