Pros And Cons Of Solitary Confinement As A Form Of Punishment

From a mechanical to an organic society, the breaking of laws has always been followed by punishment on the offender. Punishment has naturally become the course of action following a criminal offence, and the supposition that the offender is deserving of his punishment by society further perpetuates the notion that punishment is always fair and proportional to the committed crime. This taken for granted assumption has led to social stigma to further justify the need to keep offenders locked up and kept out of society. Therefore, solitary confinement still exist today as a form of punishment, and that is in itself one of the most immediate problems of our society for the following reasons. First, the conditions of solitary confinement involves

If slavery was the form of material racism that existed as an institution to exclude “inferior” individuals from participating in the dominant society because of rooted psychological racism, then I assert that not only has psychological racism never ended, but more importantly, material racism as an institution continues to exist today ever more strongly in its alternate form to support the interests of psychological racism. Therefore, I contend that psychological racism and material racism have always coexisted and continue to do so, with the latter always being the instrument and perpetuator of the former; the transition from physical punishment to psychological punishment is originated in the shift from a mechanical to organic society which created the perfect circumstances for capitalists to encourage segregation of classes through the exclusion of the have nots from economic participation, thus, Du Bois's’ veil was brought back in a new form; the dehumanization of the lower class has become more discreet in which allows the re-introducement of Du Bois’s double consciousness into the minds of the punished through “being the society’s problem” and the concept of Fanon’s