Torture is easily one of the most immoral and inhumane ways to punish someone. Although many forms of torture are banned under international law, there is still one form many individuals underestimate, due to the lack of physical pain being done on the people being tortured. That method is solitary confinement, and it is one of the worst methods of torturing someone. It damages an individual’s mental health and can make them consider or try suicide, many of them succeeding. However, can the use of solitary confinement be justified?
The answer is no. Long-term solitary confinement should never be used on someone, and no one deserves it either. Solitary confinement is very harmful to one’s mental health, and many people believe that it is inhumane due to the mental instability it causes. Before, there was a belief that solitary confinement would force self-reflection or remorse. Instead, many prisoners went insane, and that shows solitary confinement serves no long-term positive purpose. It does not do anything positive for the prisoners, and only makes them worse.
However, many individuals still think that solitary confinement is justifiable if the person it is being used on committed devastating crimes. However, they are false. Solitary confinement only damages one’s mental health, and does not have any benefit to the ones that it is being enforced on. Death penalty is a less inhumane punishment for a prisoner with devastating crimes, since it causes less mental pain on them. However, that does not mean that death penalty should be used either.
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