Solitary Definition
Beck, Allen. “Use of Restrictive Housing in U.S. Prisons and Jails, 2011-12.” Bureau of Justice
Statistics (BJS), 23 Oct. 2015, www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=5433
Coming directly from the Bureau of Justice, this list of statistics covers the likelihood of specific groupings of people spending time in solitary confinement, based off things such as education, age, and sexual orientation. Allen also looks at the percentage of inmates who have been in solitary confinement in the past twelve months with mental issues, to the percentage of prisoners who are under standard imprisonment with mental issues.
Breslow, Jason. “What Does Solitary Confinement Do To Your Mind?” PBS, Public Broadcasting
Service, 22 Apr. 2014, www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/what-does-solitary-confinement-do-to-your-mind/. …show more content…
He asserts that solitary confinement is in no way used for reformation, but rather for management and bringing to subjugation a few prisoners. Using a long string of statistics based off extensive research, he shows that not only is solitary confinement detrimental to the mental health of the prisoner, but is directly correlated to the chances of committing additional crimes once released to the public.
Wofford, Ben, et al. “The Ethics of Solitary Confinement.” Brown Political Review, 21 Mar. 2016, www.brownpoliticalreview.org/2016/03/ethics-solitary-confinement/ Ben compares the conditions of solitary confinement in American prisons to the conditions of solitary confinement of war prisoners in other countries that many of our soldiers have been forced to endure, and has found that, in some cases, the conditions in our own prisons are worse than the conditions of those that captives of the Taliban have faced, based on testimonies given by those very same captives. He makes a call for those Americans spending their time defending the right to bear arms to use the same fire to protect their fellow citizens to be free from the threat of the torture of solitary
Statistics (BJS), 23 Oct. 2015, www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=5433
Coming directly from the Bureau of Justice, this list of statistics covers the likelihood of specific groupings of people spending time in solitary confinement, based off things such as education, age, and sexual orientation. Allen also looks at the percentage of inmates who have been in solitary confinement in the past twelve months with mental issues, to the percentage of prisoners who are under standard imprisonment with mental issues.
Breslow, Jason. “What Does Solitary Confinement Do To Your Mind?” PBS, Public Broadcasting
Service, 22 Apr. 2014, www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/what-does-solitary-confinement-do-to-your-mind/. …show more content…
He asserts that solitary confinement is in no way used for reformation, but rather for management and bringing to subjugation a few prisoners. Using a long string of statistics based off extensive research, he shows that not only is solitary confinement detrimental to the mental health of the prisoner, but is directly correlated to the chances of committing additional crimes once released to the public.
Wofford, Ben, et al. “The Ethics of Solitary Confinement.” Brown Political Review, 21 Mar. 2016, www.brownpoliticalreview.org/2016/03/ethics-solitary-confinement/ Ben compares the conditions of solitary confinement in American prisons to the conditions of solitary confinement of war prisoners in other countries that many of our soldiers have been forced to endure, and has found that, in some cases, the conditions in our own prisons are worse than the conditions of those that captives of the Taliban have faced, based on testimonies given by those very same captives. He makes a call for those Americans spending their time defending the right to bear arms to use the same fire to protect their fellow citizens to be free from the threat of the torture of solitary