...Solitary Confinement is Brutal Solitary Confinement is cruel, but not just cruel it's feeble. Imagine being in a room that is five times smaller than a room. No one to talk to. Yelling and screaming. Hallucination dreams. Imagine being in a room with nothing just a bed, sink, and toilet. Just laying on their bed with a rock they found and throwing it up in the air. Solitary Confinement is the isolation of a prisoner in a separate cell as punishment. There should not be Solitary Confinement allowed in the prison system because people develop personality disorders, prisoners spend up to twenty- two to twenty- four hours in a cell, and it is not needed for the prisoners in the prison system. The first reason solitary confinement should not be allowed in prison system is because prisoners develop personality disorders. The minute prisoners are left alone for a long period of time some visual and auditory hallucinations, insomnia and paranoia, uncontrollable fear and range, increased risk of suicide, and...
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...correctional institutes and their staff are not widely trained to deal with inmates who suffer from mental disorders. The result then, is that use-of-force interventions, and placement in solitary confinement, often for extended periods of time, are used as methods of dealing with unruly behaviours exhibited by these mentally ill offenders. While there are various issues surrounding mental health in the Canadian judicial system, for the purpose of this report, the discussion will be focused around inadequate methods for dealing with behaviours presented by these inmates, namely by use-of-force and solitary confinement 1.1 Use-Of-Force Techniques In Sapers 2014 report, it is reported that “28% of all use of force interventions involved an offender with a mental health concern as identified by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC)” (Ministry of Public Safety, 2014). This is likely due to the fact that mentally ill inmates are more likely to self-harm, have unpredictable behaviour, and have more trouble complying with rules. Further to this, “The use of pepper spray in nearly 60.4% of all use of force incidents reviewed suggests an increasing reliance on security-driven responses to behaviours that are often associated with mental illness” (Ministry of Public Safety, 2014). 1.2 Solitary Confinement Earlier this year, in January, a class action lawsuit was filed...
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...commit. Kalief spent three years on Rikers Island. During that time, he endured about two years in solitary confinement, where he attempted to end his life several times. For two years straight, Kalief was not allowed any human contact as he was locked up in a small room with nothing, but a window, and a toilet. In 2013, Kalief Browder was finally released but the mental scars that solitary confinement left him remained and continued to haunt him in the outside world. When this young man entered Rikers island, he was 100% mentally stable. Mr. Browder came out of this facility with major depression, manic bipolar disorder, associative personality disorder, and...
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...The use of solitary confinement is widely used in American is knownove internationally as a form torturement. This form of punishment is increasely common in the United States since it was introduced in the “supermax” prison system which begin in the mid-1980’s. (ICCPR Treaty Summary 2012). Prisoners are kept in a small, windowless cell for 22 to 24 hours a day, with minimal contact with family, guards, even lawyers. The number of prisoners currently in solitary confinement is estimated to be around 80,000 through the number is continuing to grow faster than the overall prison population, meaning that this is coming a normal thing for prisons. Many people will say that the first experiment of solitary confinement in the United States began...
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...rights, they should still get the equal treatment like everyone else. A solitary confinement cell is the size of a handicap bathroom and they only get to leave a few times a week for a short amount of time to either shower or workout. Solitary confinement can cause prisoners to develop severe mental issue from being isolated from society. There has been many cases of people suffering for mental issues caused by solitary confinement. Solitary confinement can cause prisoners to act very violently, even more than what they are. Solitary confinement can also cause prisoners to have suicidal thoughts. Solitary confinement is the isolation of a prisoner in a separate cell as a punishment. Solitary confinement was made to be a harsh treatment for prisoners. Lawyers have disapproved it and call it a cruel punishment that has been banned by the Eighth Amendment. Prisoners would be held in there for twenty-two to...
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...Without social interaction, the brain takes a turn for the worst.When an inmate is put into solitary confinement, a simple punishment can go bad really fast.Yet most prisons in the US use it often when an inmate acts up. Solitary Confinement is ubiquitous in America. The debate on whether or not prisons should be using solitary confinement recently.Although it can be helpful for responding to aggression, solitary confinement should not be used because it drives people crazy, makes people socially awkward, and develops depression When inmates leave solitary confinement/prison,they won't have the social skills to get a job or even have a conversation with friends and family. They would essentially be socially awkward. The article “Hellhole” says,“Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like...
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...point of prison, and in more specific, solitary confinement, is rehabilitation it becomes very clear that there is a cost involved in keeping inmates incarcerated, and these costs befall the tax payers. It’s costly enough to house one inmate in a regular prison, but even more so when the inmate is in solitary confinement. With reports by the Bureau of Justice, the prison population is already at nearly a staggering two million. Out of those two million, over eighty-thousand are in solitary and the costs quickly add up (Adkins 210). Furthermore, these figures don’t include criminals in jails or juvenile correction facilities, so the cost is even greater (“Key Statistics: Prisoners”). It’s been reported by NPR, in an article titled...
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...that would be considered a common upon all serious offenders. It was intended to replace the many different types of punishment that was handed down by the Judges when prisoners were sentenced to jail. One goal of the penitentiary was to be a completely different concept than that of a jail, the vision was for the penitentiary to be a clean and humane place where inmates could be housed. Inmates were kept separate and away from each other, in solitary confinement in an effort to help them maintain a clean body and clean spirit. Discipline that was used in the penitentiary was intended to correct the inmate’s behavior by strictly enforcing particular rules. The penitentiary model allowed prisoners to be productive by laboring and making handmade items, such as shoes and leather goods. Prisoners were just not permitted to just sit around all day; similar to what was happening in the jails. Although, the penitentiary was a secular place, it was created with a more spiritual intent. The main goal was for the criminal while in confinement, be able to ponder on and think about his or her offense and the crimes that were committed. They were able to repent by apologizing for their wrongdoings while promising to do better. In many ways, it was similar to what going to confession is in today’s society. Once there was repentance, it was believed that the mind was made clear and free...
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...loved one by homicide and felt revenge? Well, you’re not alone. There is a way to overcome that revenge, the death penalty. The death penalty should be kept legal because murderers should be put to death if they take a person's life, they could cause harm to others in the same prison if they get put in jail, and they shouldn’t deserve to live out the rest of their lives in prison. Murders can get the death penalty by many reasons: treason, espionage, drug trafficking, aircraft hijacking, and drive-by shootings. When murderers take someone’s life, they should be put to death. Getting charged with the death penalty means they will be publicly shamed. The death penalty can be used in many ways. One of which is, the lethal injection. The criminal will be injected with sodium thiopental to put the criminal to sleep, Pavulon to cause muscle paralysis and respiratory arrest, and potassium chloride to stop the heart (Wikipedia, 2018). Another way is the electric chair, which is used by the prisoner being strapped to a chair at the wrists, waist, and ankles. Then two electrodes are strapped to the head and a leg. A voltage of 2,000 watts are rushed through the body several times a minute and eventually stops the heart (The Register, 2006)...
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...Penitentiary Ideal and Models of American Prison ? CJS/230 June ?, 2012 ? Abstract In this overview the following points will be addressed: based on the ideals of the penitentiary, what it should be like, the principal goal of a penitentiary, the differences between the two prison models, the benefits and the drawbacks of those models, and the model considered to be the winning model. Penitentiary Ideal and Models of American Prison Unlike American prisons and penitentiary’s we see today, they were much different as we look back into our history in the early eras of how prisons, penitentiaries, and inmates were handled. Penitentiary is defined as a prison or place of confinement where persons convicted of felonies serve their term of imprisonment. Based on the ideals of a penitentiary it is supposed to be a place of humane punishments instead of the harsh physical type. Furthermore, it was supposed to be a specific punishment. It was to be clean and sanitary in comparison to jails. The most important focus and principal goal of the penitentiary was to practice corrective discipline by the creation of habits of industry by the enforcement of rules. Inmates were to work consistently and not idle. It seemed like good intentions and motive went into trying to organize this type of system. The two prison models according to Corrections: The Fundamentals, by Burk Foster. Published by Prentice-Hall. Copyright © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc, Chapter 2 reading...
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...usually are not enough in prisons to accommodate the inmates. It has been estimated that 95% of inmates received by the federal prison systems need immediate medical care for preexisting conditions (Alexander, 1972). Those that are larger prisons have their own hospital facilities while smaller prisons and jails use community hospitals. Jails have a more critical problem. The American Medical Association did a survey that showed 65.5% had only first-aid facilities and 78% had no formal arrangements with physicians in the community for the medical care of those in the jails. This same study also found that 80% of the medicines given in jails were given by non-medical personal (AMA, 1972). It is viewed that the inmates are not required or should receive medical treatment that is needed. The Eighth Amendment requires that prison officials provide a system of ready access to adequate medical care. Prisoners must have the ability to ask for care on a regular basis. Prison officials show deliberate indifference to serious medical needs if prisoners are unable to make their medical problems known to the medical staff, if sick calls are not conducted regularly...
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...This is when the incarcerated person is put in a small concrete cell that just contains a toilet and a bed for a period of time (Leon). While my target audience of my peers might have never been in a situation like this, it is important to be educated and informed on the conditions we see as “fair” to put people in. The incarcerated person often spends all day in this cell and have no other human contact except for an hour that they get to do exercise locked inside of a cell (Leon).While many might not be aware of what solitary is, they should understand that the conditions those who are incarcerated face in prison are not ethical and often have a negative impact on the person overall, even after being released from this confinement and put back into general population. This makes solitary confinement not a form of reprimanding and deterring but rather a form of cruel and unusual punishment that is unethical and should be removed from all...
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...incarcerated. The ideas of how a penitentiary should be back in the early 1700’s, was a place to basically separate criminals and keep them from one another. Based on what people thought, a penitentiary was a dark and dingy place. The buildings that held prisoners did not really look like prisons. But since people knew that the buildings held criminals they assumed the worst. Penitentiaries were meant to be a place people were punished for their crimes. They were supposed to be clean and healthy but most of them were dirty and dark. The principle goal of a penitentiary was to attain some kind of spiritual guidance while being incarcerated. Several reformers came to the penitentiaries to sit and talk with the prisoners teaching them about different religions. Auburn Auburn penitentiary opened in 1817 just thirty miles north of New York City. This penitentiary was small cells stacked on top of each other. The cells measured seven feet long by three and a half feet wide and were seven foot tall. The prisoners were not allowed outside because there was no courtyard. This penitentiary divided the prisoners into three groups. They were divided only to be controlled better. There were divided by solitary confinement, group work during the day, and slept in single cells at night. This penitentiary used solitary confinement as punishment. They even conducted an experiment for an entire year. They locked eighty prisoners up in confinement and let them out finding only that several had...
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...very definite ideas on how a prison should be organized and managed. The operation of this prison was based on the following 5 general principles (Clear, Cole, & Reisig, 2006): 1. Do not treat prisoners harshly, but instruct them that hard and selective forms of suffering could change their lives. 2. Solitary confinement will prevent further corruption. 3. Offenders should reflect on their transgressions and repent. 4. Solitary confinement is considered punishment. 5. Solitary confinement is economical. The Quakers are the ones that actually formed these ideas, due to the fact they wanted more human treatment for criminals. I believe that the five principles were implemented due to the kind of treatment that the criminals were getting at that time period. “Until the late 1700's, criminals were put to death, shipped to other countries to become slaves, and were thrown to wild animals just so society could literally get rid of them.” (http://voices.yahoo.com/the-early-american-correction-system-326781.html?cat=17) Then when the Pennsylvania system took hold the prisoners were able to carry out a certain amount of time in jail instead of getting hung/ killed. At the time this system took hold it was believed that the prisoners needed a strict punishment that way they could repent and become closer with the lord. Some punishments or correctional alternatives would have been: • Work in the prison • Cell blocks • Solitary confinement • Early release for hard work and good...
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...Juvenile Delinquency December 3, 2014 Juveniles in The Adult Prison Children as young as 14 years old have been tried as adults and are sentenced to die in prison without considering their age and the factors that led the individual to commit the offense. Society believes that a juvenile should be tried as an adult because it will help them understand the consequences of their actions, however, children and teenagers that commit crimes are too young and they don’t have the mental ability to understand the consequences of their actions. These juveniles are not aware of what they are going to face behind the adult’s prison bars. According to the National Juvenile Justice Network, it states, “ 200,000 youths are tried, sentenced, or incarcerated as adults every year across the United States.” Studies have shown that juveniles that are sentenced to adult prisons are more likely to commit crimes again after being released from prison. Juveniles are more likely to be sexually assaulted, abuse, neglect, suicidal, and depressed in adult prisons. The adult prison has shown failures to rehabilitate these juveniles. Laws like the Felony Murder rule has to shown to be cruel and unusual punishments towards teenagers and children. Society does not bothered to look into factors such as the juvenile’s brain, mental disability, and their living environment that causes them to commit the crime. “Children are five times more likely to be sexually assaulted in the adult prisons than in juvenile...
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