The case of whether or not criminals should be in solitary confinement has been on for years. It was one not allowed, but yet it came back. Federal Government’s most secure prison that is known as ADX, and information has been locked away from the rest of the community. This secrecy mostly affects the family members of the prisoners in this prison. However, this is not about ADX and their secrets. We don’t know for sure what is going on in that prison, other than the fact that prisoners are held in that tiny room for 23 hours and let out for one hour in yet again a caged area outside. They are basically locked in like animals.
Now, solitary confinement is a way of torture. There are many disagreements and agreements on how prisoners should be disciplined for their past actions. Let’s take a deep example of someone getting murdered. The murderer is sent to a prison and sentenced to solitary confinement for life. There are mixed feelings on whether solitary confinement is the right punishment. Personally, solitary confinement should not be practiced. As stated, many times in the talk, this way of torture leads to serious effects on mental health. It alters their human mind, leads them to lose the ability to have a social life, and possibly cause them to start losing their minds. For sentences of solitary confinement that are not life sentences, this way of torture is extremely bad for the prisoner. Prison is a place for punishment, but it is also the place where prisoners realize their mistake and become better. It may not be totally true, but for some people, prison has helped them. By sentencing someone to solitary confinement, it could easily strap away their human identity.
Now for some places that agree with solitary confinement, this would probably be because of religion in that certain area. Maybe solitary confinement would let them think and repent for their mistakes, but after a while, people in solitary confinement will not be able to stand being locked up and will act up maybe twice as bad as they were before because of the damage being done to their mental health. Solitary confinement should not be used anywhere because of the terrible effects it has. Afterall, being locked up in solitary confinement is like being an animal in a cage. Prisoners may have done bad things that hopefully they will learn and regret, but they are still humans even though the things they did were terrible. I am not saying what way we should treat prisoners, but solitary confinement is definitely not the way for anyone because it tortures someone to the point of completely damaging one’s mental health.