The Hole

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There are several bad consequences that solitary confinement causes to prisoners. It can cause psychiatric syndrome, characterized by hallucinations, panic attacks, paranoia, no concentration, and have no memory. It can make healthy people become mentally ill because of the lockup and start living on their own world. Inmates can suffer hypertension, anger, emotional breakdowns and depression thought that will take them to suicide. Prisoners can also lose the control of their lives. They are unable to keep on going in society because they don't even know who they are. They can be disoriented and scared by social contact and also get frustrated because they can not enjoy life.

Even though solitary confinement is a method to get prisoners and prisons safe it is not the best way to resolve it because they cause more negative results than positive. They have changed the whole point of the purpose of solitary confinement, before it was as a rehabilitation and now is a punishment. Prisoner should not be in solitary confinement if it is unnecessary and if they are it should not be for a long time. Prisons should reduce the time of prisoners placed in solitary confinement and be used to protect and rehabilitate but not punish them .Solitary confinement should only be used as a last resort to prevent prisoners from acting violently. Isolation does not have therapeutic goals and is in fact a method to control the environment instead of a therapeutic intervention.

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SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, PUBLIC SAFETY, AND RECIDIVISM.

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THE BEGINNING OF THE END: USING OHIO'S PLAN TO ELIMINATE JUVENILE SOLITARY CONFINEMENT AS A MODEL FOR STATUTORY ELIMINATION OF JUVENILE SOLITARY CONFINEMENT.

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