I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010)
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I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010)
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Re: I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010)
#2If being imprisoned and enslaved isn't cruel and unusual punishment, I don't know what is. The constitution doesn't prohibit shit with its useless words in this case.
Re: I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010)
#3I don't even know how to start. The US present themselves as paragons of freedom, and then they blatantly violate every kind of basic human right.
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#4The prison system in general, and solitary confinement (and other forms of emotional torture) in particular is a good enough reason in my opinion to dismantle the state and start over.
And it's only one of about 4-5 good reasons right now.
Let's do it.
Re: I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010)
#5If being imprisoned and enslaved isn't cruel and unusual punishment, I don't know what is. The constitution doesn't prohibit shit with its useless words in this case.
Cruel, but not unusual.
Re: I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010)
#6The prison system in general, and solitary confinement (and other forms of emotional torture) in particular is a good enough reason in my opinion to dismantle the state and start over. And it's only one of about 4-5 good reasons right now. Let's do it.
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Re: I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010)
#7Honestly, I find the US prison system absolutely horrifying in all respects. As satisfying as it may be for victims to feel the person that did something to them is 'gone' they will eventually be let out, and when they do I want them to be ready to integrate with society.
Recidivism rates in the US show it is objectively not working, with state prisons leaving inmates to re-offend 76% of the time. [1] In Norway, much derided for their lavish prisons, it's 20%. [2]
Throwing people away and treating them like animals is an abject failure, compounded by the mandatory fill rates in private prison contracts. [3] It's time to revisit the whole system, top down, and make it less about punishment and more about making sure it doesn't happen again. And it should be done with data.
[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-zoukis/report-docu...
[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/why-norways-prison-system-is-...
[3] https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2015/jul/31/report-find...
Re: I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010)
#8Maybe I looked crazy walking back and forth like some trapped animal . . .
If you see an animal pacing back and forth in a cage, it is generally considered neurotic behaviour and a sign that the cage/enclosure is too small. My point being that it probably did make him slightly crazy and that solitary confinement is psychological torture.
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#9Maybe I shouldn't post this online, but this is one of my biggest fears. Just, being trapped somewhere, alone with your thoughts, with nothing to do.
After reading The Jaunt by Stephen King, I was on edge for a day or two afterwards.
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#10If being imprisoned and enslaved isn't cruel and unusual punishment, I don't know what is. The constitution doesn't prohibit shit with its useless words in this case.
I always found the faith in the revered interpretations of some constitutional document written centuries ago, and the respect for the "Founding Fathers" not as historical figures, but as some kind of guiding lights for today, totally bizarro.
Even the name "Founding Fathers" and the way it's thrown around seems quite bizarre for a democracy. It's the people, and the will of the people, that should be respected, not what some long gone luminaries said.