No, of course not. I said that was the purpose intended by the guards. It costs them little to use solitary confinement liberally, so they do. If someone is inc

No, of course not. I said that was the purpose intended by the guards. It costs them little to use solitary confinement liberally, so they do. If someone is inconvenient or troublesome, or just pisses them off, away they go. I also think that it's well evidenced that solitary makes people go completely insane, and that the guard doesn't care very much what happens to them if they ever get out of prison. EDIT: What I'm trying to say here is that I think what we're doing is harmful, but there seems to be little incentive for empowered parties to change it.