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The documentary solitary nation demonstrates the effects of solitary confinement on the prisoner’s health. There are several problems associated with using segregation as a punishment, however, the main problem is the effects to the mental health of the inmates. The documentary illustrate that some prisoner lost their sanity in solitary confinement. One example is what happened to the prisoner Adam Brulotte, at the beginning of his solitary confinement time he was optimistic and have plans to improve himself by reading books and think about his future, but only after twenty five days he started to lose his mind and become unstable, threaten to cut himself, pushes feces under the door and flooded the unit. This behavior clearly indicates segregation bad affects to the mental health of the inmates. Additional example is Todd Fickett, who has to spend six months in the solitary unit. This prisoner mentality changed and he converted to a suicidal person, several times he cut himself in attempt to commit suicide. All these problems reveal that using segregation, as a punishment is not beneficial for the prisoner’s mental health. …show more content…

Sending an unstable person back to society would put the lives of the citizens in danger, for that the warden tried to come up with different policy to fix the problem. The policy he used is instead of punishing them, the warden tries to rehabilitate the inmates by offering them weekly classes to talk and become less violent, treat them in the mental health unit, and if there was an improvement in the prisoner behavior he will discharge them from segregation and send them back to the general

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In his essay, “Hell Hole” Atul Gawande informs his audience how damaging solitary confinement can be to the human body and character. To make his argument he uses examples of prisoner’s solitary confinement stories and people who have been similar situations. Gawande explains to his readers the difference phases and problems the human body goes through considering the lack of human interaction. The writer makes a compelling argument that solitary confinement is detrimental to the human’s mental state and physical well-being. His argument includes impressive diction, vivid emotional appeals, and logos appeal to guide his readers through his essay.

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Solitary confinement could last years as specified and is a brutal form of torture and can be seen as inhumane. Not many believe it to be a form of torture, even when presented with stories such as these that are real-life examples of what can happen to someone when they are socially isolated with no human contact. It continues to occur because the American public would never vote on being less harsh on inmates. Inmate violence is unchanging even when putting prisoners in solitary confinement and as mentioned, “the result has been unprecedented overcrowding, along with unprecedented idleness -- a nice formula for violence. Remove a few prisoners to solitary confinement, and the violence doesn’t change” (Gawande 10).

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Solitary confinement, in my opinion, is cruel and unusual punishment. If there was not a mental-health crisis in America, and there was in fact a rehabilitation-focused prison system, solitary confinement would be greatly reduced and used much more sparingly. What is the point of driving people to madness by putting them in isolation? It would be so much cheaper for tax payers to change the system to a more effective one that actually reduces

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Graves recalled that he remembers hearing loud piercing screams from inmates losing their minds and the feeling of isolation can dehumanize themselves. A person will eventually completely lose their emotions and become a shell of a person they once was. Graves noted, that there should be a reform on how solitary confinement should addressed when there is a need to separate a dangerous prisoner from the general population. He believes that there should be a system of policies and regulations that should be carried out in court before putting an inmate into solitary confinement. He claims that the majority of inmates in solitary confinement observes their lives is hopeless and

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Forcing Woody to communicate through writing when struggling with literacy already was even more punishable. Forcing other prisoners with disabilities to room with each other isolates and groups them together. All of these conditions and factors are unhealthy and emphasize the poor treatment and oppressiveness the prison system

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Administrative segregation violates inmates’ constitutional rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It is flawed as a practice and amounts to torture. As such prison systems cannot demonstrate the practice of AS to be justified in a free and democratic society in accordance with section 1 of the Charter. Such infringements on inmates’ rights continue, as the Charter’s, “Legal Rights” sets out rights that protect inmates in dealings with the justice system and to ensure individuals are treated fairly. Consequently, inmates rights are violated when administrative segregation deprives a person the security of person when they expose them to physical, physiological, and social trauma from being denied, for an indefinite period, any meaningful

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“Solitary Confinement on Television” shows the range of how solitary confinement is covered in recent media, everything from the passing mention to the direct filming of someone in solitary. The writer approaches the article as an informative piece, to teach the parts of solitary confinement that is not broached on tv. It has the tone that media does not treat solitary to be as devastating as it is. Solitary is rarely shown on screen, only mentioned, or it is treated as joke/test of will. They want viewers to know the reality of involuntary isolation with no means of escape. Grossman gets to the crux of why solitary confinement is portrayed this way on television, TV show producers know that showing characters alone, locked in a room with

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This is more in reference to solitary confinement or isolation within our juvenile detention centers which has been proven to have damaging effects on children. The article focuses on only using solitary confinement when absolutely necessary. There is no justice system a Legal System that is more all messed up with the Greedy and power hungry even the Unions that Perpetuate the Crimes against a Criminal, some would call it perpetuating Mental Illness under the Guise of "Justice!". Effecting not just the Prisoners but the staff as well, If You were suffering from mental health issues when oYou started Your Term or Job,, You will be Questioning Your sanity and that of Your Employer, Prisoners, and fellow Guards as well as Your faith in Humanity

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“I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything. ”This is a quote from Nelson Mandela who spent 27 years in prison and many of those years in solitary confinement.

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I agree with Madeline and Julie that the cons of solitary confinement are much larger than the pros of solitary confinement. As the number of incarcerated increases in the US, which is a country with an abnormally high number of incarcerations annually, there are also a larger number of prisoners in solitary confinement. There have been studies shown that correlate lasting psychological damage with the amount of time a prisoner has spent in solitary confinement or isolation. The complete lack of human association and contact for a long period of time can cause severe psychological distress to a prisoner. Solitary confinement was once used as a form of short-term punishment; however, more and more prisoners are now placed in solitary confinement

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If we ever hope to come together and promote equality as a society, how must we do so if we suppress the needs of those with suppressed rights? To amend the issues that we have created, there must be stricter regulations around solitary confinement as it is a cause of unnecessary suicides, robs citizens of their basic rights, and brings down our intersectionality as a collective society here in Canada. Lately, the number of solitary confinement prompted suicides have skyrocketed, and have been on a steep incline for nine years, with no plans for amendment. A study at Cambridge University has determined that 63% of suicides in federal prisons take place while the inmate is in solitary confinement. "Shalev, Sharon, A Sourcebook on Solitary Confinement (2008)."

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Some might argue that solitary confinement is actually effective and has its benefits, however this is not the case since this punishment only seems to make criminals much more dangerous when they leave prison than they were before and research shows that inmates who left solitary confinement experience increased anger and end up committing the kind of criminality that society is looking to prevent by using this method of punishment. Thus, solitary confinement ultimately fails as a rehabilitative measure, and as a way to "settle down" problematic

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How is this considered rehabilitative? Many people say that if someone is put in solitary, they probably deserved it, or that it helps with the violence levels in prison. What they don’t know is that it can be used as punishment for almost anything, and it doesn’t actually decrease the violence levels in jail (Gawande). Instead, it creates catastrophic results. “More than 50 percent of suicides in juvenile facilities were committed by youth being held in isolation…” (Gawande).

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Of all the readings that we discussed on solitary confinement, I think the most frequent analysis is the extensive description that Jack Henry Abbott "" and Charles Dickens"" on prison systems as a form of punishment, in some ways that grasp the readers imagery. We also talked on what is punishment and justice, as well as the theories of justice that considers punishment. Charles Dickens observation of prison system believes that it's to strict and terrible, in my mind judgment thought it's suppose to make offenders suffer for what they've done to victims and why care on what punishment they receive. However turned my opinion on feeling a little sorry for the offenders because I can not go three days stuck in a room nonetheless 24/7. On the

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