Solitary confinement is not effective nor does it benefit an individual.
There are more than 800,000 inmates in solitary confinement across the US prisons. Although it is slated as a critical method towards curbing violence in the prisons, the opposite is true since it is increases the number of violent behaviors in prisons. The method is not effective since it reduces the mental capabilities of an individual making them hypersensitive to light, sights and sounds that in turn make the inmates to be paranoid and more prone to violence. The prison system is meant to be a rehabilitation center where prisoners are molded to be integrated as better people in the society (Shames, 2015). However, the increased number of inmates in the US prison system only increases the level of recidivism and distress among the inmates within the prison system. It is therefore, imperative to make an analysis of the prison system and compound the different attributes that are present in the prison system to assess the effectiveness of the prison systems. Solitary confinement is a cruel and ineffective method in the criminal justice system and turns out to be counterproductive in rehabilitating the inmates.
The US Supreme Court in 1890 indicated that solitary confinement rendered the prisoner to be semi-fatuous after even a small period of time in solitary. The court was ruling on a case where a man had murdered his wife indicating that solitary confinement was the main cause for the deteriorating mental behaviors indicated in the inmate (Bennion, 2015). The US has since increased the number of inmates in solitary confinement which increased in the 1980s.
Statistics indicate that more than half of the suicides in prisons occur in solitary confinement or among prisoners in isolation (Bennion, 2015). It is even more distressing with most of the prisoners in confinement being convicted for immigration offences or being protected from violence and rape from others in prisons. The problem is even more compounded with prisoners spending even a decade in solitary confinement within the prisons indicating the critical problem in the society.
The research will focus on reports within the criminal justice system to assess the different attributes that are indicated in the society. The report compounds the main problems that need to be addressed and create a proper functional process aimed at articulating the main tools of change in the systems accordingly.
References
Bennion, E. (2015). Banning the bing: Why extreme solitary confinement is cruel and far too usual punishment. Ind. LJ, 90, 741.
Shames, A. (2015). Solitary confinement: Common misconceptions and emerging safe alternatives. Vera Institute.
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