A Short Summary Confinement In Supermax Prison

According to “Solitary Confinement: Common Misconceptions and Emerging Safe Alternatives” by Alison Shames, Jessa Wilcox, and Ram Subramanian on the Vera Institute of Justice, solitary confinement is often sentenced to “fulfill a prison’s or jail’s top priority: the safety of its staff and the incarcerated people under their care.” (Shames, Wilcox, & Subramanian, 2015). However, most inmates that are placed in solitary confinement are

The video “Life in a Supermax prison” depicts the life in a maximum-security prison. Suggests that the more dangerous the inmate is the less freedom and civil right will be granted to them. While prisons or prisoner with lesser offences and good behavior in some cases have more opportunities to exercise their rights. These aspects are different when regarding prison and jails in the earlier era, because all of the condition were harsh regardless of the offense in the earlier era. Life in prison consist of the deprivation of many rights and aspects to a health life mentally, physically, emotionally, and psychologically in earlier eras and in this day in time.

Insomnia, paranoia, uncontrollable feelings of rage and fear are just some of the effects that a prisoner can experience after being placed in solitary confinement. I think the government should ban solitary confinement because it causes mental pain and suffering.

There is not much data today on supermax prisons even though these facilities are steadily growing across the nation (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2015). Many experts that have conducted some studies have determined that long-term solitary confinement can cause acute sensory deprivation, paranoid delusion belief systems, irrational fears of violence, resentment, little ability to control rage, and mental breakdowns (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2015). An interesting statistical fact is that 45% of inmates in Washington’s supermax prisons have been deemed seriously mentally ill (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2015). Most inmates in long-term solitary confinement are anxious, angry, depressed, insecure, and confused (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2015). Many of these prisoners

Over the last couple of decades, prison systems have adopted the use of solitary confinement as a means of punishment and have progressively depended on it to help maintain obedience and discipline inside the prison structure. Solitary confinement is a form of incarceration in which a prisoner is isolated in a cell for multiple hours, days, or weeks with limited to no human contact. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, the United States represents only 5% of the world's population yet houses 20% of the world’s prisoners (ACLU). Two of the biggest problems with our modern day criminal justice system is the overwhelming number of people that are incarcerated in the United States and the overwhelming number of convicts who return

Solitary confinement has had a long history in the American prison system. America is the first country to adapt solitary confinement into the prison regiment. Pennsylvania had the first special housing units for inmates or “SHU”. When Europeans came to America to look at the new model for prisons in Pennsylvania they wrote reports describing to the European parliament on how prisoners were treated like caged animals. Many of them quickly realized that this was not what prisons were set out to accomplish. The purpose of a prison is to rehabilitate criminals and bring them back into society as an individual that has the best mental tools and skills to make their respective communities better. Putting inmates in solitary confinement for more than 48 hours can only lead to awful emotional pain and mental problems which can result in self-destructive behavior to regain the self-control that is being deprived through this process of isolation and expulsion.

Solitary confinement is occasionally used in most prison systems as a means to maintain prison order. Mainly for disciplinary punishment, or as a place to put inmates that are at escape risk, or a risk to themselves and prison order. Sometimes inmates that are sex offenders voluntarily choose solitary as a means of protection from other prisoners. Sometimes solitary can be used to hold pretrial detainees to prevent them from messing with witness, so they can’t try and force a confession. For 23 hours a day inmates are confined to the barren environment that is their cell with high surveillance (Smith, Peter Scharff, 2006.) Inmates have no social contact. Visits and phone calls are infrequent and highly restricted. Visits sometime only take place via video screens. The physical contact one experiences is limited to the interaction with prison guards, weather it be putting on restraints or taking them off.

Solitary Confinement has been used as a punishment, to keep the prisons secure. However, with the changing of opinions from a few decades ago, to present time, more people want less solitary confinement used. With also corrections policies changing over time has also changed the dynamic of how a younger person could be charged and sentenced, compared to an older person who is not a juvenile could be put into solitary confinement. More facts about the use of Solitary Confinement, the policy is up for debate. Starting with do I agree with the New York Times, The Living Death of Solitary Confinement?

Inmates currently in solitary confinement reach numbers as high as 100,000 and this includes juveniles and people with mental illness. Stuart Grassin, a board-certified psychiatrist and a former faculty member at Harvard Medical School, has interviewed hundreds of prisoners in solitary confinement. In one study, he found that roughly a third of solitary inmates were “actively psychotic and/or actually suicidal.” Suicide is a huge concern with solitary confinement, in one study of California’s prison system, researchers found that prisoners in solitary confinement accounted for nearly half of all suicides. Within the confined walls of your segregation prison cell I can see how over time it would seem like the only way out of your cell is to take your own life.

The approach of issues raised by terrorist and extremist offenders in prison settings is the behaviour of restrictions. Further on, one criticized system is the use of the alleged ‘supermax’ prisons. An additional example appears in the case Babar Ahmad and others v. The United Kingdom whereupon two sides of ‘supermax’ emerges. First, the impaired version and then the factual version. In the impaired version from ADX´s associate they claimed that the inmates had the right to, in the first step of ‘supermax’: “inmates had two non-legal telephone calls per month, five social visits, access to a commissary list and art and hobby craft items, and escorted shower time three times a week. They had ten hours per week of out-of-cell recreation time“. However, the applicants provided a psychiatrist who was specially prepared about ‘supermax’ conditions in order to be able to describe them. And he described the effects of treatment of this kind harsh and brutal. It was close to a sensory deprivation , although there are some connections for the inmates. The exact conditions can be found in the case Jones EL v Berge instead. The District Judge in

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New York has already put in place a law that prohibits teenagers to be put in solitary confinement along with other regulations. Assemblywomen Nily Rozic introduced bill A.9550 in 2014, which stated that pregnant women should not be allowed to be placed in solitary confinement and passed the assembly (LRS, 2014). Assemblymember Aubry’s bill will restrict teenagers, pregnant women, and people with certain disabilities from being placed in solitary confinement, but also ensure prisoners placed in solitary confinement are also receiving therapy, treatment, and rehabilitative programming. The difference with bill A.3080 is that it states that the residential rehabilitation units will help the prisoners placed in solitary confinement. These units are supposed to help them transition back to the general population and outside world since it is often hard for to adjust to having others around you after being placed in confinement (Poggio, 2015). The fact that there are states that are also in the process to implement similar regulations, shows that not only is this a concern for New York, but to the nation as a whole. Difficulties associated with implementing the bill is due to some people not agreeing in whether keeping certain people out of solitary confinement is a good decision for the state. However, studies done in Texas, Florida,

Solitary Confinement has become an issue in the United States Prisons. Inmates can be placed in solitary confinement not only for violent acts, but also for acts such as possessing contraband, using drugs, ignoring orders or using profanity. Most inmates in solitary confinement are placed in isolated cells for 23 hours per day. Many of these cells are illuminated only be artificial light and offer no exposure to natural daylight.

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Since the early 1800s, the United States has relied on a method of punishment barely known to any other country, solitary confinement (Cole). Despite this method once being thought of as the breakthrough in the prison system, history has proved differently. Solitary confinement was once used in a short period of time to fix a prisoners behavior, but is now used as a long term method that shows to prove absolutely nothing. Spending 22-24 hours a day in a small room containing practically nothing has proved to fix nothing in a person except further insanity. One cannot rid himself of insanity in a room that causes them to go insane. Solitary confinement is a flawed and unnecessary method of punishment that should be prohibited in the prison