Solitary Confinement Reflection

This fil was a very graphic depiction of how life is in solitary confinement. There were many things that shocked me that I did not expect at all. One of those things was how often these inmates will turn to self harm just so they can get some form of human attention. Another thing that surprised me was how much the inmates misbehaved. How they would flood their cells, cover their windows, throw their feces and everything in-between. Without knowing much about solitary confinement I was thinking that these people would not be acting out as much as they were. I understood that they were in there for acting out in general population but was not thinking that that they would be doing everything that they did. It is just a part of society that
Craig said in the film, solitary confinement starts this vicious cycle of not being able to get out of solitary confinement. He said that being in solitary confinement will cause someone to become more aggressive. The thing about solitary is that they do not care how long you have been in there. By acting out in an aggressive way that will get them more time, then they will become more aggressive and pissed off then act out again causing them to get mote time. The cycle goes on and on and it is very hard to break. One person that come to mind is Peter, he seemed like a very violent person that was in solitary. He continuously threatened other guards and prisoners lives if they did not transfer him closer to his family. In his mind this was a way for the prison to have to move him since he was threatening everyone including himself. From the eyes of the prison he was just causing problems that were going to stop him from getting transferred. Here goes that cycle again of violent out breaks and getting more time in solitary for their
Some people are all for it and some find it completely inhumane. I do not know what I think about it. I have some mixed feeling about it. In some cases it is a good idea, in others its not the right thing to do. There are some people that need to be in there, there are some people that have done horrible things in their life and are a huge risk to society and to the general prison population. One big problem that I find with solitary confinement is that it the inmates in there are getting some kind of social reinforcement. The social reinforcement that they are getting is not the positive kind either. The inmates are cutting themselves to get attention from the prison staff while they are in solitary confinement. This is not healthy for them or for the staff, with all the blood that is coming from the inmates has the possibility of spreading disease. These inmates are learning that acting out or threatening to kill themselves ore others they will get attention from the prison staff this is not a good thing to be getting reinforcement from. It is sad that these inmates have to resort to hurting themselves to get attention, this is where I do not agree with this. On the other hand, though prisons do need a way to punish inmates further for acting out. This is where people get stuck on what to do. Some people say that taking away the little things is the way to go. By taking away everything and