Solitary Confinement

The New York State prison system has been using solitary confinement in an unacceptable way. In New York, the prison systems are slowly changing their ways of solitary confinement and are placing incapable inmates in confinement. The changes for solitary confinement have been long overdue. The prison system overuses the power of putting at risk inmates in solitary confinement for an unreasonable amount of time.
The article “New York Rethinks Solitary Confinement,” written by The Editorial Board, talks about the New York prison system for the men and women incarcerated. The prison system sends unstable inmates into solitary confinement. The jail system has since lowered the amount of time certain inmates spend in solitary confinement. The
The author includes two states to show that there is a change happening in America, the change is slowly but surely. By using the word substantially the author gives a sense that the two states are changing in a dramatically fast way. The author included the statement of a non-increase in prison violence reveals that prisoners are capable of behaving themselves with out harsh punishments. The Editorial Board uses the word reduce letting readers know that the states have not completely eliminated the use of solitary confinement, but they are willing to eliminate it in the future. They want readers to infer for themselves that the more reduced solitary confinement is the more possibility prison violence will decrease. They express the evidence of decrease in prison violence does not affect prisoners behavior in a negative way. The Editorial Board says, “Solitary confinement will be presumptively prohibited for pregnant women, and inmates with developmental disabilities will be held there for no more than 30 days.” The Editorial Board predicts the prohibition of certain inmates by using the word presumptively. They state that the only inmates prohibited will be pregnant women, and inmates with
The prison system has to realize that even though prisoners have broken the law they do not deserve to be locked in a room against their own will. Prisoners should not lose the same human born rights every citizen has. Locking them in a room is not a positive way of punishment, it’s rather cruel and does more harm than good. The slow speed the state of New York is improving its solitary confinement is defective. The severely ill inmates who need specific attention should not be a part of the general jail population, instead those inmates need to learn how to behave in the outside world by not being surrounded by the polluted minds of a general jail