Solitary Confinement In Kiana Calloway's Life

Thousands of people across America are experiencing near-hell while they are locked inside a type of prison called solitary confinement. Solitary confinement must come to an end in America, even for the worst of criminals. The effects of solitary confinement consist of mental illnesses, wrongful convictions, staff members receiving trouble, the long-lasting suffering for the criminals, and the number of people experiencing it must end now. Solitary confinement can change the life of a person behind bars forever. Prisoners are left with multiple mental illnesses, and some are worse than others. “Haney gives the example of his 2003 study of 100 randomly selected people held at Pelican Bay, the supermax prison in California. Some 70 percent felt

These are not worth their crime, and some didn't even commit it. Solitary confinement has also been seen with wrongful convictions.“Kiana Calloway was only 17 years old when she was sent to solitary confinement. She was wrongfully convicted and it changed her life forever” - “Even after being released after 22 years, Calloway still has flashbacks and nightmares about the prison, even when she is with friends she still thinks about it and she can not help it” (Calloway). Now, Calloway has to live the rest of her life in misery for something that she didn't do, just because of how negatively impactful solitary confinement is. The prisoners are not the only people who suffer from the Solitary Confinement. The staff also have rough experiences when they are working in these prisons. “Staff often report experiencing lower stress levels and increased feelings of safety after leaving solitary to work in less restrictive units, or when working in solitary units that have implemented reforms” (James,

Creating terrible mental health issues by going to your job or being locked up is unnecessary for anyone and no one deserves it. This issue could be solved by just putting the prisoners in a normal state prison. This will still help the criminals learn from their mistakes, and also let them leave the prison with slim to none mental diseases. The extreme, eternal suffering given from solitary confinement did not last for a short or mediocre amount of time either. Prisoners are held in the confinements for hundreds to thousands of days with nonstop suffering of living the same plain, boring life, every single day. “Solitary isn’t just used for short periods, either: many people are confined without human interaction for years, sometimes even decades” (Herring). Prisoners can't even interact with a real person for an extreme amount of time. Not talking to another person for even a week would drive an average person crazy. But sadly, thousands of people have to endure this unbearable suffering every day of their lives. “Thousands of people — at least 61,000 on any given day and likely many thousands more than that — are in solitary confinement across the country, spending 23 hours per day in cells not much bigger than