Solitary Confinement: Is It Wrong?

Try spending a couple days in an isolated cell at the county jail. I guarantee you will not like it. I didn't when I was 20.

Even though you have an animal in a cage some times they act in such way that requires they be put into an even smaller cage by themselves.

Solitary confinement: not only wrong, but another form of torture when applied over not just days, weeks and months, but even years!

Depends upon the offense, but mostly no.

Prison is supposed to be a punishment. Personally I think that jails and prisons are not close to harsh enough. These people should be given no free time, they should be put to work doing something 6 days a week 10 hours a day, the rest of the time sleeping, and on Sunday's they should be doing either a religious or rehab type group. Obviously they will have breaks for meals during work hours. They should not have TV, books, or anything else that could be a luxury.

Your premise that offenders are sent to prison to be punished while in prison is 100% wrong. Being sent to prison IS the punishment. The punishment is the loss of freedom.

are you kidding me? you have no idea how easy it is in there. They have more luxuries or at least as much as lower middle class families. There are people that get arrested just to go to jail because its a vacation from real life. Its sickening. Going to prison is not a punishment at least no in the US.

Human beings will ultimately go mad if they have no physical contact with other human beings. I'm referring to tactile touching.

Infants die without it.

That said, there is a reason why certain prisoners are placed in solitary confinement - they are dangerous.

If you eff up in prison it's your own falt personally if I could have all the books I wanted I'd be set I think

If you can't do the time: don't do the crime

It is not meant to be pleasant.

It is mental torture. We are social animals. Solitary Confinement is physical Torture too not being able to move around. Think, would Jesus do that to anyone? I Know this has been said a lot, but it is still true. What a person sows that shall they also reap. That means the bandits would better off not being bandits.

Most in prison already have a lack of respect to even hostility for social interaction. Some of these anti-social people would be better off out of the misery they heap upon themselves by their striking out with anger at others for just walking along, walking too close, just looking at a person in deep rage. Yet, there is some jackass with a law degree all set to rescue them from lawful punishment. For these Constitutional professors, you can't execute them nor can you paddle them as each are inhumane, yet putting them in with a passive population where they can be the piranha in a school of fish is humane for the general population? For some this solitary confinment is a badge of honor for making other conform to his or her outrageous belligerent behavior.

The more we coddle these bandits, the more they drain resources away from other better outcome programs for children! The comfort of one bad guy should NOT, outweigh, 100, 10,000 or 10 million children, but the ACLU thinks it does, but you can't argue with idiots!

No cable TV for them

No, but there are alternatives if the inmate prefers.

You think like a religious pharisee or chief priest.

No, I think like a tax payer that has worked all my life and is tired of footing the bills for career criminals. Often having to foot the bill for their defense. Furthermore it's an outrage that an inmate has even the gall to ask tax payers to pay for hisXXX, it's sex change operation. I'm fed up.

The people I talk about wanted Jesus dead. You have death on your mind. It just so happens your body kills life to live. Want death to a human,and your soul will be dead too. Knowing this your words are predictable.

You sound like my grandfather, and I'd be willing to bet you are just like him. Constantly carping about religion and sin while doing dastardly deeds himself. Once I had left home and was an adult on my own, I wrote him off. He was a hypocrite and a self-centered old man who had raised 3 kids with no love in his heart. He could not be reasoned with nor even conversed with. He had to spend every moment preaching to all of us who had never done a wrong thing in our lives. I think he did as much harm as many people who are in prison, but his crimes were not criminal, they merely destroyed souls around him.

I am not loveless like your father by a long shot. Your father was acting like the scribes with Jesus. He did not know that his body that killed life to live was sinful not capable to live in the face of Gods glory. A person refusing to war saves the soul. Devils love war.

I want to educate you about religion. Jesus is what we should be like.,Religious people were doing their best giving Jesus guilt or at least trying exactly like the legal system. Therefore the legal system or people that give guilt to try to find fault in people act like the religious people. Jesus said this about them. King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Just a little correction - it was my fathers father, my grandfather. My father was a good man, amazing under the circumstances.

God is in you to see God wherever he is. Thank you for your honesty. God is pleased.

And don't forget these also:




I post these pics to demonstrate what torture really is. Most Americans of today cannot even fathom true torture - we are such a bunch of wimpy limp-wristed weenies that we see temporary isolation as TORTURE. Isolation is not torture compared to what that prisoner did.

Both these forms of torture were used by religious establishments.

I would add that those were state religions, not free religions. Not that it matters as it isn't done any more. People would make more sense if they knew what real torture is.

Agreed.

It makes prisoners go crazy in the sense of having holucinations and become more dangerouse when they get out of prison as it makes them more violent. Also while it may not be physical pain I think it may cause enough psychological terment to classify as crual and unusual punishment.

What jail were you in? If not as an inmate, where did you glean this information?

Not saying someone should put away with no contact with people for months, but a week or two might make a person a bit more sociable.

Hey, here's an idea. What if we all go to work everyday and obey the law?

What a unique thought! Half of our population don't subscribe to that sort of policy - lounging is ever so much more fun.

This question could only come from a politically correct liberal.
Lets look at it this way. You father/brother/son is in jail...for, whatever....
There is an inmate there with a history of violence, maybe even murder. He sees you family member and decides he doesn't like how he looks and kills him. Now, anwer me this, what is more un-ethical? Locking up a violent offender in solitary, or letting him kill someone?

The progs would always find FOR the killer. That poor killer is a victim, don't you know? His parents didn't love him, or his wife said "no" to him. He can't help being in prison. A heartless society put him there.

Progs don't believe in punishment - if I did things they do, I probably wouldn't believe in punishment either.

I agree. The problem is without the death penalty, we would house these monster for their whole lives. They get free housing, medical, entetainment, food...etc....oh, wait, that actually sounds just like what we give illegals....and they are not in jail. Instead the pres gives them more and make them legal. sigh.
Here is a little bit of knowledge.....in CA they have a prison known as Chino Institute for Men. The have minimum security, maximum and death row. Death Row is known as Palm Hall. Do you have any idea what the average age of Palm Hall inmates? Please keep in mind, these men are NEVER getting out. Try 27. Now ask yourself this, is it cruel and unusual punishment to keep such young people in a 12' single cell for the rest of their lives? They were sentenced to death.....I think it is more humane to carry out the sentence instead of a living death...
But, then I am not a liberal......in other words, I am sane.

I know whereof you speak. I think everyone is entitled to 1-3 appeals. When those do not find in his favor, his death sentence should be carried out. (While the loony leftists who think nothing of murdering babies hold vigils outside the prison - NOT because they revere this person's life, but because they can count on cameras and microphones. Leeches, every one of them.

I agree. I wonder how these silly childish liberals would feel if they were the victim of a violent crime....or worse yet, a loved one.

It breaks only one ethic, however it is a new one, sort of old but new again, would we want to be put there? If we love our neighbor as ourself, we would consider this an injudtice.

I don't think you would want your neighbor in jail to love you, cause you sound like you would be someones bitch real quick.