Analysis Of The Living Death Of Solitary Confinement By Lisa Guenther

the phenomenological argument as the Author of “the living Death of Solitary confinement” Lisa Guenther’s argues, is the study of the structure of the consciousness from the first point perspective of the subjective individual relative to his experience. specifically, in relation to her argument of Solitary confinement, Guenther uses phenomenological study to argue that solitary confinement is a living death sentence in which the person succumbed to such confinement is at risk of developing psychological problems, due to the deprived of communication with the world. Due to the developing of such psychological issues, Guenther’s arguably suggest if the U.S Prisons are to release an inmate from their cells to the open world who are succumbed

To make her point, instead of using facts like any person would do so in a research she comes into a conclusion that it is preferable to work with phenomenology since this sort of method would give her more insight of the effect that solitary confinement creates into the person who lived it. As Guenther states “Rather than attempting to prove a set of objective facts, phenomenology tracks the way that a meaningful experience of the world emerges for someone in the total situation of their Being-in-the-world” (2). Phenomenology is indeed a useful tool to prove certain things and it gets to provide more of the insight of what occurs in the mind. In the Case of Guenther, it helps her to make her case but she does not use it well to her advantage since she would only provide a certain number of three testimony’s but doesn’t generalize it to make it stronger. Meaning increasing the number of those affected by confinement would make her argument stronger, when a broader spectrum of the subject matter is given, it makes it more believable, because the more repetitive the result is occured, its argument is more supported by the facts, making it stronger and irrefutable. In addition to her case, becoming as an example to prove a point Is great and all but when professional

Guenther discusses the effects of solitary confinement such as “They experience intense anxiety, paranoia, depression, memory loss, hallucinations and other perceptual distortions” (1). But doesn’t provide enough reasons as to why U.S prisons should become a rehabilitation place to help those get back into the society they were once in. she only establishments that solitary confinement and prisons are not good to inmates because they caused them to develop psychological problems. What I mean is that, the entirety of the article and her arguments gives the sense that, that’s the purpose of what she is trying to achieve here, making prisons a rehabilitation place instead of something else. But the thing is why should prisons become a rehabilitation center, Guenther claims that “Given that 95 percent of all inmates are eventually released into the public, and that many of these will be released without any form of transition or therapy, solitary confinement is a problem that potentially affects every one of us.” My question rely on how does it affect every one of us when she says that “solitary confinement is a problem that potentially affects every one of us,” for this to be accepted Guenther should provide more in-depth of the how, of those who are free of