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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitary_confinement#Torture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitary_confinement#Torture "Solitary confinement is considered to be

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitary_confinement#Torture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitary_confinement#Torture "Solitary confinement is considered to be a form of psychological torture when the period of confinement is longer than a few weeks or is continued indefinitely. Negative psychological effects have been documented, leading one judge in a 2001 suit to rule that 'Solitary confinement units are virtual incubators of psychoses—seeding illness in otherwise healthy inmates and exacerbating illness in those already suffering from mental infirmities.'"

JonFish85 13y ago
If you're concerned about someone who is possibly suicidal, and who is at significant risk of being killed by other inmates, what do you suggest?
- jessaustin 13y ago
  Release him from prison.
  - lttlrck 13y ago
    So suicidal inmates should be released from jail? Let me know how that goes.
    - Karunamon 13y ago
      >Non-violent political inmates should be released from jail? Fixed that for you. Yes.
    - jessaustin 13y ago
      Prisoners commit suicide all the time; the wardens keep stats so they can brag about how hideous they are. That's been true everywhere, forever. The innovation we've seen in the USA with solitary confinement, which is intended to break those who effectively oppose prison management when placed in the general population, is that the tax-paying public is actually dumb enough to believe it's about preventing suicides. If one really cared to prevent the myriad of societal pathologies that stem from our shameful prison system, the best way to do that would be to release those whose imprisonment causes those problems.
- jellicle 13y ago
  There's no evidence that solitary confinement is being actually used to prevent suicide/harm in these political cases, and a great deal of evidence that it is simply punitive. For Manning, the prison psychiatrist repeatedly stated he was at no risk of suicide and tried, unsuccessfully, to have him taken off the naked sleep deprivation routine that he was on.

JonFish85 13y ago

If you're concerned about someone who is possibly suicidal, and who is at significant risk of being killed by other inmates, what do you suggest?

jessaustin 13y ago
Release him from prison.
- lttlrck 13y ago
  So suicidal inmates should be released from jail? Let me know how that goes.
  - Karunamon 13y ago
    >Non-violent political inmates should be released from jail? Fixed that for you. Yes.
  - jessaustin 13y ago
    Prisoners commit suicide all the time; the wardens keep stats so they can brag about how hideous they are. That's been true everywhere, forever. The innovation we've seen in the USA with solitary confinement, which is intended to break those who effectively oppose prison management when placed in the general population, is that the tax-paying public is actually dumb enough to believe it's about preventing suicides. If one really cared to prevent the myriad of societal pathologies that stem from our shameful prison system, the best way to do that would be to release those whose imprisonment causes those problems.
jellicle 13y ago
There's no evidence that solitary confinement is being actually used to prevent suicide/harm in these political cases, and a great deal of evidence that it is simply punitive. For Manning, the prison psychiatrist repeatedly stated he was at no risk of suicide and tried, unsuccessfully, to have him taken off the naked sleep deprivation routine that he was on.