Solitary Insanity Thanks to the ever growing supply of literature and movies centered on the typical charismatic “bad boy” figure, I often misinterpret the words Juvenile Delinquent as misunderstood orphan. However, not every child in Juvenile Disciplinary programs is Dallas Winston: the charismatic fictional thug character from S. E. Hinton’s book, The Outsiders. In fact most of them have earned their stay in jail. Even so, some want to turn over a new leaf and began afresh. Others, still extremely immature, do not even realize the wrong they have done or trouble they have caused. In this broad mixture of repentant and hardened underage criminals, the question arises what should the laws for Juveniles in jail be for solitary confinement? …show more content…
A punishment warns someone or something that to do whatever they did again will end in bad consequences. It, hopefully, prevents them from making the same mistake twice. It should never hurt the person to the point of psychological damage which many people claim solitary confinement does. If it scares some people into doing the right thing, however, then the results outweigh the means. For example, my mother dated a boy her senior year of high school who had spent time in solitary confinement in his freshmen year. He had snuck into a shop late one night to steal some jeans and the cops caught him. So they took him to jail and put him into solitary confinement for one hour. He never stole again. He said, “it was the scariest thing to ever happen to me”. If one hour of grief can bring a lifetime of moral conviction then we may consider it our duty to give it to our