Out of the 4 years I did in prison I did 44 days in solitary confinement. 10 Days when I first got in because of administrative segregation because I was a "high profile case". My first 10 days in jail I sat in a cell by myself with no pen or paper. With no books, or anything to keep my mind occupied besides looking over my charges. After a year I was sent to seg again because someone told the C.O.s that I was extorting them for their food. Which was false, I never did extort anyone. I went to maximum security floor because of a. false accusations. I got moved again to a lower level after a few months because of good behavior. When I was in a dorm somebody stole my food so I had to fight to get it back. I lost the fight and got 8 stitches in my head, and all the deputies cared about was "Do you want to press charges on the person that did this?" No! I don't want to punish another person even more then they are already punished. They stitched me up, and put me in seg, for 15 days. When the day came to take me out they said they didn't have enough room in population for me so I had to sit another 2 days in there until there was room. At least it was better than my first time because I had food and coffee. They messed with my mind so much that cold coffee and Cheetos actually brought me happiness on my 21st birthday. I was actually happy for the little things I had because I knew how much worse it could be. After that I got moved to prison and send to seg in there for a investigation. I was walking with someone that I knew and he got jumped by some inmates. He told the sergeant that I set him up, which I didn't. I sat in seg for another 17 days while they "investigated" this situation." They charged me with a 104 which is gang aggravated assault. 100 is murder. I didn't do anything at all...... I sat there for 17 days not knowing wether I would get found guilty or not. The anxiety sticks with me till this day that now I have a mental illness because of this. I am very grateful that someone is actually using their platform to speak for the people who are silenced. This was very powerful!! Thank you for exposing the torture that goes on every day in this country to kids who aren't even old enough to drink.
2.6 years in solitary 15 years ago. The people now pay my SSDI because from one day to the next I don’t know what is happening. During that 2.6 years I was starve and denied water for over a week and had to drink filthy water out of my non flushing toilet. Not because I did anything wrong that they could write a disciplinary case for, but because I wrote numerous Texas and Federal agencies asking for help, not for me but for two mentally ill inmates the guards regularly starved. One agency in all those letters actually contacted the prison ( they didn’t bother to monitor the problem, just informed the guards I’d complained.) I learned from that experience that if I didn’t one day destroy this country that there would be no change because we had already slid past the point of fixing the problems within the guidelines of the current rules and laws. Thank you all for supporting me in my efforts.
Donald please contact me. I was also in solitary confinement and I suffer from the after effects everyday. My email is abettersolution14@gmail.com Thankyou for sharing
Ive been locked in for 15 days at county during one of my bids before and I cannot even imagine for one second going through what you went through! You need to write a book. You must be so strong mentally to even be alive right now.. people don't even realize what it means to be in that situation, a minute feels like an hour.. I mean I cabt compare my story to yours but I guess what I'm trying to say is I've had a taste and I know for a fact I would have killed myself probably within 3 months of what you went through. Damn, god bless you man
in life we give out and get what we look for ... sometimes ... VERY RARELY ... we get the statistical outliers ... if we follow our track and the law ... it's mostly going to be ok ...
@@Trailtracker There are many people throwing around phrases like 'find myself', not having really grasped the profundity of such a realisation. If these prisoners were to 'find themselves' then they would no longer be suffering their own minds. This is true for any human being and with this being understood you can see that not only does such a comment have a place here but the topic is among the most important dialogues that our species can be having right now. I am not condoning the actions of the American justice system by any means but these prison cells could be a curse or a blessing depending on how the prisoners use the time. Given a little guidance, it could be a completely transformative experience that could take a matter of days. Unfortunately, they're being completely neglected with what appears to be a ploy to remove them from society rather than helping them to overcome the thoughts that lead them to commit such crimes in the first place. If those that are responsible for this wilful neglect 'found themselves', they simply would not be able to subject another human being to such conditions. It could be true that perhaps they need this more than the prisoners. Until every human being understands the nature of their existence, there will always be a place for such dialogues.
@@HaxUK Very true. Someone like a Buddhist monk would probably love this place. All the time in the world to meditate and no need to work for food. Then again, someone who isn't trying / wanting to find themselves, it would be torture. Might make all the difference if they threw some books in there about meditation.
What are you moaning about? it's like a free getaway for them, peace and quiet, away from raping and killing innocent people, it's technically a vacation.
@@ManTheManLV255 you also have to keep in mind that there are very high-profile criminals such as terrorists there. El Chapo is there. They do not want to enable the prisoners to let people on the outside know of a way to get to the inside so that there could be a Prison Break. ADX is a supermax prison so of course the restrictions are going to be greater because that's where the worst of the worst are incarcerated. The best way to beat the unbearable conditions of prison is to stay on the right side of the law and not go there.
My brother spent his whole adult life in and out of prison for being a drug addict and after 21 years in all in and out over the years he came out the same brother I knew everytime he was what was called a problem because he had so much charisma they felt he was a security risk and he spent 1 years in solitary confinement and when he got out and came home he was a shell of his former self they broke him changed him forever I have done solitary confinement on a short term myself and what this talk is informing you about is very real and very much torture and should be band as a long term solution for any human being weather or not they are a bad person
I DID 8 MONTHS IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT. I HAD NO WINDOWS, NO MATTRESS,( MATRESS AT NIGHT BUT TOOK IT IN THE MORNING)NO TOILET..JUST A HOLE IN THE FLOOR. BEAN CAKE 3 TIMES A DAY.AND SOME KIND OF COFFEE/TEA MIXTURE. (LOST 30 LBS)ONE 5-MINUTE SHOWER A WEEK .. IT WAS BAD BUT NOT AS BAD AS YALL SAYING IT IS . ITS CALLED PUNISHMENT.
@@mattheww239 I DID 8 MONTHS IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT. I HAD NO WINDOWS, NO MATTRESS,( MATRESS AT NIGHT BUT TOOK IT IN THE MORNING)NO TOILET..JUST A HOLE IN THE FLOOR. BEAN CAKE 3 TIMES A DAY.AND SOME KIND OF COFFEE/TEA MIXTURE. (LOST 30 LBS)ONE 5-MINUTE SHOWER A WEEK .. IT WAS BAD BUT NOT AS BAD AS YALL SAYING IT IS . ITS CALLED PUNISHMENT.
@@salamjihad3449 To me what you just described is worse than bad. Though you would know better than I. I believe in punishment. But I also believe people need love to heal.
my aunt and her husband, both US residents, were in Egypt on holiday when they were taken into prison arbitrarily and put in solitary confinement for over 2 years now. no one from my family has been able to have any contact with them, not even the lawyer has been able to speak to them. we are extremely worried about their health. my aunt is the sweetest, kindest, gentle and caring person I know. we feel very helpless.
I used to complain about being grounded cause i felt it drove me crazy but that's not anywhere close to even a fraction of what those in solitary must feel
@@alwells5779 you want these folks as neighbors? depends on why they are there. some criminals are not worth taking the chance. If somebody sodomized your wife or child would you want them free? I live near this place and I hope their security is good.
@@davideasiebert1941 Who said anything about being free? There are hundreds of people in that prison and you're making up a straw man. Each one is there for whatever they are there for and while we are not talking about setting criminals free, we are talking about how to behave as a society and it's far more likely that people are in prison for things like marijuana violations (and then get sent to solitary for some sort of rules violation within prison) than sodomizing someone's child so if you're going to pick a straw man, at least pick one that's more likely to be found to have real legs.
Solitary confinement is one of the worst experience ever, and I wasn’t the one locked up! My ex husband spent 6 months there and I can say those 6 months were the worst of his sentence! I remember the first time I saw him after he got “visitation approval” which was through a monitor! And wow! I saw him so weak so scared and sad! Yet I remember I tried to put a smile cuz of course I was happy to see him! But after leaving I went home and cried so much just thinking of all the horrible things he was going through. Its inhumane! And everything she says its true he would tell me some crazy stories! I remember i did everything I could to make his time there less horrible, but I could only try yet only they know what it truly feels! Wish no one had to experience this from either side!
I was in prison for almost 3 years for drugs after I was sentenced and went from county jail to "diagnostics and evaluation" D&E I was held in a small cell for 23 hours a day under close watch until the institute decided where to send me ... It was there my eyesight went from totally fine to needing very strong prescription glasses to see also kinda lost my mind .. this video get a thumbs up from me
@Diana B- “level joe” didn’t say anything bad to Michael. It is the other joe, “Joe&Jacob Copeland” that was being low to Michael. (Just typing this comment in case “level joe” checked the comment’s section- he doesn’t deserve the mixup).
I know quite well what Solitary can do to a person. I spent 120 days in solitary. It started because I had a blanket on my feet and didn't take it off my feet when told. Mind you it's under 60°F most of the time. Once I was locked in solitary (I got 45 days for the initial blanket on my feet) I slowly was losing my bearings day by day, and would get new "charges" for things like hanging a picture on the wall of my cell, because it was becoming more and more difficult to keep a grasp on reality. One minute felt like one hour, one hour felt like half a day, and one day dragged on for what felt like almost a week. And a week felt like a month, and a month like eternity. By one out of four months in I was hallucinating which could make time slow even more. I'd talk to myself, and some things are just to hard on your mind to talk about, even years later. The absolute pure dread I feel now when encountering police officers is so noticeable that it always singles me out for harassment. I have night terrors that leave me shaken for days. I've found it difficult to function most my adult years because of this experience I went through at 18 years old. My initial crime? Stealing something when I was homeless with a value of less than $100 dollars. That's the crime I committed to "deserve" an experience that's fucked me up ever since. The experience has caused me to make other bad decisions that led to more jail. Like instinctively running from police out of that extreme sense of dread, whether or not I did anything wrong. Or resisting arrest over a ticket because I had a panic attack and fought the officer. So maybe one day someone can explain to me why the PTSD this caused me was worth the initial crime and jail "charge" I committed.
When I was 19, I was sentenced to 30 days in a city jail for a misdemeanor. The city jailer confined me to my own space away from regular traffic. Since it wasn't an overcrowded county jail, I was forced to serve the entirety of my 30 days. I was in solitude and had zero time outside of the cell. Ten years later, I'm socially awkward and developed a speech impediment. My therapist tells me it was a major source of trauma in my life.
@@katkameo6413 I do and I did. It completely changed my life. I was going down a bad road at the time. After that experience, I turned it all around and became a productive citizen of society. The original comment was made to highlight the consequences of solitary confinement as opposed to being kept in gen pop like a lot of my friends were.
@@ronsteelable9405 That's great news! Ive known many corrections officers. The more these monsters are given an inch of freedom, they manipulate and use it to their advantage. They will kill, rape or beat a guard with zero regard for any humanity. If this speaker could, she'd give them cable, mountain views and a sleep number bed.
spent one year in solitary confinement, 24/7 lock down, no windows no yard no contact with friends of family. only conversation was with the guards that brought me my three meals and weekly 5 min shower. been free for a year now. but im still in solitary confinement mentally
I DID 23 MONTHS IN SOLITARE CONFINEMENT. I HAD NO WINDOWS, NO MATTRESS ,NO TOILET..JUST A HOLE IN THE FLOOR. BEAN CAKE 3 TIMES A DAY. I SHOWER A WEEK .. I TOOK IT AS A BAD MEMORY BUT THATS IT.
“What is freedom except the ability to unite with who you are and why you are here? The inability to do this represents the lack of freedom in all of its manifestations.” Steps to Knowledge - The Book of Inner Knowing
@@ThePresentation010 There are horrendous things that happen to people that may not be able to be avoided; however, there is an inner voice we all have that attempts to protect us from tragic circumstances if we can hear it and respond to it. It's that voice that may say, "Don't go there, tonight." or "Don't say that." or " Be very careful." I heard that voice when I was in the middle of a spin on an icy road. The voice said, "Let go of the wheel." Instinctively I did. Once the car landed, it was inches from a telephone pole. Had I not listened, the outcome would have been worse. I know a women who was going into a bank. As she reached for the door handle, she felt a strong urge not to go in. She didn't heed that urge and ended up being a hostage in a bank holdup. So Steps to Knowledge is a powerful spiritual study that slowly builds a relationship to that "still small voice' that lives in all of us.
I struggle so hard with this. Thank you for giving me some very big topics to battle within myself. I have 4 of 5 family members that go through the prison system regularly and my personal battle with right and wrong and punishment for such is so disorienting now.
But the scary thing in this life is that the number of little girls is increasing magically is scary.... What we can eat if little girls are getting the whole food that exist in our planet earth .... this make and have made me out of my mind for many years ago 😨😨😨😱😱
@Fayssal Amin Yes It is scary how there are many little girls in the world having to eat whole foods that soon we would not have any food to eat, overpopulation is scary.
Stop by a nursing home and say hello to your grandparents and parents. Someday, you'll be there, if you live long enough and then, you too will experience solitary confinement.
So true, my mother is old but she’s in her own place, but I feel so guilty because I suffer from social anxiety and travelling to her place makes me unwell since I get panic attacks but I’m sure one day I will. Hate myself even more , life’s so weird!
for my grandpa its not as bad as solitary confinement but he does have alzheimer and even tho he would prefer dying at this point they won't let him cuz they profit by keeping him alive.. it's not about "evil" it's about incentive
On the outside, when we feel like we need help, we go talk to someone who knows about that subject. We don’t lock ourselves in our house and isolate from the world. Because it’s not natural for humans to be alone. History has proven that so many times that the only reason there could ever be for solitary confinement is torture. You can’t expect people to magically understand how to change their behavior by locking them away from the resources they need to get that information. If you want change, then you have to teach them how they are expected to behave. Right now, they are thrown into a confined area full of other people who also don’t know how to act in society and treated in a way that causes them to become aggressive simply to survive. We need change but I don’t know how.
4 months 23 hour iso a lil late on I got into an argument w a pedophole and refused to lock down w a person like that and was shoved in the seg unit for 3 weeks ... I actually enjoyed the first couple days of privacy away from the general population but I really was talking to myself at the end of it
I spent 5 months in solitary confinement when I was in second grade thanks to my abusers. 23 hour lockdown on the weekends and 15 hours a day during the week for school. The beating I received in first grade kept me terrified and compliant. Later in 7th grade I did 10 months in solitary. As before nothing in my room/cell but a bed and a dresser. I cheated and snuck a book in to read, terrified I would get caught reading and be beaten. My abusers went on to have successful lives. I'm 52 and have been mostly homeless my adult life. ABUSERS SUCK!
Mike Nonya I’m so sorry that happened to you. I hope you can free your mind and be at peace very soon. I also hope your living situation gets better. Sending HOPE and love to you wherever you are in the world friend
My thoughts and prayers go out to you Mike 🙏 If you ever want to talk, just reply to me here and I will respond. I am so sorry you suffered so horribly by the people who should have provided you love and a place of safety. Bless you 🙏
The practice of solitary confinement has to end. My husband spent 23 years in solitary confinement. I cannot begin to explain the way the effects of that torture manifest itself in him. He has OCD, ADHD, depression, anxiety. He doesn’t do well around too many people. If I leave the cap off of a bottle of water in between drinks he will hyper focus on it to the point he doesn’t hear you speaking to him. It is hard to watch. His son my stepson passed away from fentanyl about 6 months ago and it’s so hard on all of us but for him he will obsess. He thinks it’s his fault or karma for his past life. He is institutionalized. He doesn’t spit in the sink when he brushes his teeth he likes to be asleep by 7:30 and wakes up at 3:30. Loud noises make his anxiety jump. He had COVID 3 times in prison and it took its toll on him. But thankfully I can say that in spite of all of this he is actually the most level headed and fair man I have ever known. Prison is difficult (and yes it is a necessary institution) but there is absolutely no need for solitary isolation
What people don’t talk about is what it actually takes to go to solitary confinement. You just don’t break the law and go there. You have to be the worst of the worst. Not fixable. Also most developed countries other than the us really don’t have true solitary confinement but are now forced to keep inmates unlocked.
some jails get away with more, locking people up if they are biased towards one prisoner, and sometimes it isn’t the worst of the worst which is what most people are worried about
@@latisharae6996 open communication is key. If its cruel for no reason that is no good. But I know for a fact many developed countries that actually take good care of prisons are now loosing the ability to separately confine those who endanger others. Its a scary time.
I've experienced solitary confinement for up to months at a time. I wasn't even in a prison known for being bad but still often would prefer solitary to dual or group confinement. I was surprised how much you seemed to know about the system but you seem to have little to no knowledge of prisoner to prisoner interactions. I don't discourage your interest. I encourage your involvement but please take the time to find out about the problems of prisoner to prisoner interactions. I look forward to finding out about your future involvement in this issue.
I was put in solitary confinement for 30 days, as a 16 year old girl for the crime of calling the police on my abusive step-father. I committed no crime and was treated worse than most murderers. I was tortured for asking "the helpers" for help. Mr. Rodgers was wrong.
This happened to me for only 3 nights and i was withdrawing off of legal pharmaceuticals with that feeling my stress and mental heath was so severe. I can relate ..
I wonder what the victims (if they're still alive) or the victims families think about these prisoners in maximum security prisons and solitary confinement? Kind of hard to empathize with this view.
But that`s completely different things - security prison and solitary confinement. When you know the criminal is in security prison you are calm and satisfied, but when you know the criminal is tortured (as the speaker states) in solitary confinement you are satisfied only if you are sadistic. I would feel uneasy knowing such thing. Also, I would suggest that only contacting/cooperating with another people criminal individual can achieve the change, can be rehabilitated, while in solitary confinement he can only degrade/disintegrate.
Perhaps being being locked in solitary confinement should be considered before someone leaves their home with the intention of taking another persons life or committing a severely heinous act ? Sadly, there are far too many people who for various reasons find themselves living an existence akin to solitary confinement despite not being criminals, just because they have no family or are housebound/disabled.
David Shenton Don't disagree with the forst part but he second? You can knock on someone's door. Uou see people at the grocery. You comment on posts online. You can pay a prostitute to listen to you for fuck's sake. The opportunity is what matters.
You clearly have no idea of reality. Many many pensioners can go weeks without seeing a single soul, and if you have depression, the last thing you'll be thinking of is to go knocking on peoples doors for conversation. As for paying a prostitute? Are you going to pay ? Or can you get Government assistance for it in your country? I'm in the UK and I honestly wouldn't have the first clue how to go about finding one, even if I wanted to 😂 Many people don't live in areas quite as friendly as some so perhaps it's not really suitable to say "just go knocking on doors"? As it happens I've lived in my home for 9 years and I actually only know the name of one of my next door neighbours ! and I do also know that I have two part time drug dealers and at least one violent offender and one aggressive "curtain twitcher" so which one should I go and pester? 😜 I'm not complaining for me, I'm just sympathetic of others that I know for a fact are not able to do what you so insensitively suggest. You need to try putting yourself in the position of a widowed old lady that has no children to phone and has depression because she can't get over the loss of her husband. It's an important enough reality for it to be highlighted in TV adverts over here, so I know you're wrong 😒
What is more American than killing and torturing? Why are you punishing them for acting American? - - > profit's for privet prisons? I don't want to pay for that in my taxes. Let them get real jobs.
Those saying they deserve this punishment, who are missing the point entirely, the following is addressed to you. These people have been let down by everyone else who had better opportunities, or rather, it's the people with better opportunities that can prevent the sorts of pathologising upbringings that create such victims (criminals). So long as we point fingers at them, we appoint responsibility upon them, hold them accountable, this is illogical, it simply won't help. Tragedies will continue to occur. Society is accountable... the masses, and the collective society has the power to prevent the sorts of upbringings that lead to such self-destructive minds from occurring. We celebrate surviving heroes, who come away "unscathed" from battles, but as soon as their wounds cause us inconvenience (in America, glorified veteran "heroes" are regularly discarded to the streets because they have PTSD)... we condemn them to the streets regardless of whether their battle was a "victory" or a loss. This is uncivilized, cruel and it's quite frankly thick/stupid to notice but make no effort to address such exemplarily atrocious "cooperation" (social interaction). It's this sort of logical fallacy/inconsistency that is fueling our inability to cooperate as a species, that's fueling our potential total self-annihilation as a species. It's our failure to work together and in turn, working against each other, that's destroying the planet. It's this total disregard for honest cooperation that's rendering populations increasingly apathetic and creating a negative feedback loop, hence the increasing sociopolitical chaos in the western world. Of whatever sort you can think of, criminals are just as much the victims as those that are hurt by their actions, who do so as a result of the rest of society neglecting their vulnerability. They are the fallen, the ones who got the short straw, who took the hardest hits due to our overall lack of competence as a species, members of the tribe we weren't able to defend only for us to just say "it was their fault that they couldn't keep up"... even though we're not talking about fleeing predators in hunter-gatherer times, we're talking about newborn children being neglected from the start and abused thereafter, crippled from the misprogramming of their psychological framework. They're more worthy of appreciation than those who go up against lesser obstacles and live to tell tales of heroic victory. Blaming them is hopelessly naive and counterproductive. If you don't look after one part of your system, the whole thing will fall apart, this is a relative universe, everything is linked like gears in a clock, this isn't complicated. Whilst some pathologised people may not be able to be rehabilitated after the damage is done, all deserve the utmost care and attention, and deserve being helped to find some quality of life in the crippled states we left them to endure until something went wrong for us, we continue to enable these tragedies every day we're pretending they are the problem, for not just magically deciding to break the second law of thermodynamics (simple cause and effect - neuroscientists are increasingly beginning to denounce free will, and believe it's all predetermined). If they can't be rehabilitated, they deserve an as comfortable as possible supervised-care program that protects them as well as others from their malfunctioning. Regardless of their inability to cooperate with and in and turn support us, we should still strive to support them as best we can. We owe it to them. We give this care to those that meet culture's current definition of handicapped, the law system does anyway, but there are still many cases of nurses abusing the elderly with dementia etc, this psychological disorder is the same illness. In reality, you're just a very angry, very afraid and very lost conforming ape (ape, like the rest of us, that's not meant insultingly) trying to exist in a world far out of your natural habitat, that you didn't spend billions of years adapting to. A program trying to function on a borderline incompatible operating system. You're glitching out. It's understandable, I don't judge you. Anger/Violence (rage) is simple a neurological response to anomalies that we can't conceive of any way to resolve and therefore get past, other than with pure destructive force. Trying to rip the door open off its hinges because you can't work out how to unlock it. This is normal considering how foreign your environment is to your brain, and how abstract and advanced the world has become. If it's all cause and effect, you're doing your best, as is the rest of the violent inciting Populus, and things will simply work out or they won't... life will have done its best. Just know that it's the hatred and blaming of others for things they cannot solve but we can, or being logical and approaching things calmly, that will make ALL of the difference between life annihilating itself or thriving and going intergalactic - overcoming the infamous "great filter". It's not easy to understand and resolve the problems of the world, how to help everyone cooperate, but I can promise you that the solution does not involve trying to hurt one and other. To deny criminals their innocence is to condemn the blind person for walking into you, even though you saw them approaching yet refused to move out of their way.f their way.
Don't smoke propaganda, and don't share useless over complex excuses in the word salads you do, instead take a trip to ISIS inc and help the poor lost souls :), that or open your heart 💗❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤 and home to these lost souls by creating safe spaces for them 🥰
@@leveljoe It's hard to have sympathy for a person that rapes children. Frank, on the other hand, who lives down the street, is lucky to speak to someone for more than 10 seconds of small talk. His wife is dead and has no family and nobody visits.
What do you do with prisoner's who terrorize and torture other inmates daily. Some people need to be isolated if they continue committing violent crimes.
I think the problem here is the not caring part, and the lust for revenge. I thought to have understood that the crime rate in - I believe it was Norway - was far lower. And they treat people in prisons with respect, despite what these people have done.
The only thing keeping me from laughing at them for being tortured is not knowing their crimes. They could be terrorists, rapists, child abusers, and still get more rights and compassion than the most innocent and abused beings on the planet: non-human animals. Not only that, they will keep torturing and murdering non-human animals to feed those prisoners. Sorry not sorry.
@stoeger 2 Of course. The system is flawed and many people get disproportionate sentences, and statistically, there must be some innocent people in jail or not guilty enough to deserve being in prison. However, I'm sure the former happens far less than we might think. When someone is proven to be innocent there's too much outcry and noise in the media. Justified, don't get me wrong, but it makes us perceive people are thrown into jail for the heck of it all the time, which I'm positive is not the case. Incidentally, black men are more likely to be wrongfully convicted than white men. That increases the perception of injustice.
Yeah, if everyday joe doesn't know about this its not longer even the punishment that scares off criminals - it is just pure revange / sweeping under the rug.
She should be thrown in solitary for comparing ISIS to innocent people being tortured and lumping in our heroes like John McCain with savages like the Taliban and Al Quida who fly planes into buildings and enjoy slaughtering innocent people, if she can't tell the difference between savages and psychopaths she has no business being on TED, but TED is pathetic as it gets so maybe she does, whats next? ISIS deserves a second chance? milk and cookies for ISIS? let them out kuz everyone is human?
Left@rd compares innocent people and war heroes like John McCain to psychopaths, serial r@pists and murders like ISIS, trained seal audience clap on command, youLUBE commenters want "JUSTICE" and fair treatment for people who would run their family over 100x over, they want to give Dylan Roof Adam Lanza and Charles Manson voting rights and 5 star hotel treatment, welcome tot he Commiefornia, where you will lose your sanity and you can never leave, kinda like a ISO cube :) .
All that is said here, sad but true, is what's happening to Julian Assange in Belmarsh prison in Britain now. Officials in US are trying their best to bring him to US and continue the torture here!
Solitary confinement is indeed a torture. But she (deliberately?) took the wrong 'lot' to advertise the idea. Most (all?) of prisoners she was talking about are violent and/or perverted animals who belong to that place which she described in such a great detail (informative, families of victims of these animals may get some comfort). On the other hand, it would've been naturally better to start with solitaries as an abuse of power from justice system towards people who eventually will be back to society, needlessly overdamaged - but somehow she did not pay much attention to that aspect. Late TED as usual...
You made a great assessment Dan for many many people our society has no alternative either solitary confinement or the death penalty however for those destined to return to society solitary confinement returns to society a fundamentally more damaged person who is then asked to be a more responsible person than they were before they were incarcerated. ...And this speaks only to a justice system that is perfect and incarcerates no one unjustly.
Left@rd compares innocent people and war heroes like John McCain to psychopaths, serial r@pists and murders like ISIS and Charles Manson, trained seal audience clap on command. youLUBE commenters want "JUSTICE" and fair treatment for people who would run their family over 100x over then r@pe them with fish hooks, they want to give Dylan Roof Adam Lanza and Charles Manson voting rights and 5 star hotel treatment, welcome to the insanity that is Commiefornia, where you will lose your sanity and you can never leave, kinda like a ISO cube :), also whats wrong with safe spaces? isn't that what lefrard zombie freaks of nature want ? leftards want safe spaces now that they got them they cry rivers of soy
Would you want them living next door instead? Some are so violent that if you put them all together they would kill each other. So then execute them? you don't want that either. They are even a danger to any doctors wanting to treat or study them. I have no pity, being a rape victim I want the all locked away so they don't do this to other children. The people who were their victims (if they live) are in a mental prison made by them. I have no pity.
I'd GLADLY bring back the death sentence if it means removing solitary confinement, i'd make that trade without hesitation in a finger snap. Mental torture is alot worse than you think...
@@jontancool9181 tell me about it. Being terrified for years unable to sleep, having no normal relationship, spend thousands on psychiatrist and I am supposed to have pity on the person who did this to me. I am not that much of a liberal.
I think it depends upon the crime. Serial killers who murder and torture or rape children or any others tear apart families. Did they think about the psyche of the the people they killed and their families? I am 100% against the death penalty but I think solitary confinement would be something I would want for someone who raped, tortured and killed my family. I have mixed feelings about this subject. I think the youth of today who are imprisoned need to have more chance for rehabilitation. After all, the human brain isn't even done developing until age 25. I think if I was in solitary I would want to be executed. But I've not had more than a speeding ticket in my life. Thank you for the interesting take on this controversial subject though.
@@MajkaSrajka I am against the death penalty because I believe that we, as human beings, cannot be 100% sure beyond any doubt whatsoever that a person is guilty. Only God knows that. I can see the next question....isn't solitary confinement the same idea? No, in my opinion. I think solitary confinement is reserved only for those who commit the most heinous, multiple offenses and that there is evidence that the crime was committed that is compelling and can be proven. I think solitary confinement is overly used though. I am just grateful that I have not had any trouble with the law. I think it is for the worst imaginable cases. I agree that it would make a prisoner more dangerous because if the damage to his psyche but again, I think it is overly used. Because of damage to the psyche I think these prisoners need to be segregated also. They most likely cannot be integrated into the general prison population.
@@laurenbahr3556 If people who are put in solitary confinement are proven criminals with evidence why cant they get the death sentence then? I'd argue Solitary confinement is FAR worse than a quick death. It's certainly comparable to physical torture, in that case would you want prisons to be allowed to slowly cut of toes and fingers of criminals, let it heal and then repeat?
@@jontancool9181 Absolutely not. I would rather die by legal injection too but if someone does these horrible unimaginable crimes do I think they should have computer privileges, go out and exercise, develop friendships, get visits from people and such things? NO! I guess life is precious and these hardened criminals had no right to do what they did to another human being. I have 8 kids, 20 grandkids and 1 great grandson. If someone killed one of these loved ones in a horrific manner and had been serial killers I would be for solitary confinement. I'd like to see a study done on how many of these families that have had this happen to them have committed suicide because of their loss. Families are destroyed not just the victims.
@@laurenbahr3556 Who is advocating for computer privileges, exercise privileges etc. though? Do you know what solitary confinement is? its nothing. complete emptiness, lack of any stimuli for the brain, most people would go batshit crazy in a couple weeks, let alone multiple years. If anything all im advocating for is access to books. I agree on to let them rot in there, but they are literally tearing off their own flesh in solitary confinement, how is that any way, shape or form humane?
What happens to other people when there not in solitary confinement? I have been in prison some men...SOME, are literally just animals waiting to attack, I have seen them go off for no reason or for very minor ones. But solitary is rough, idk......what is the answer.
I live in Australia. They have torture here as well. I was held in a cell (cage) in a maximum security prison - the Metropolitan Remand Centre - 22 hours a day for 22 months on REMAND. Assumed innocent until proven guilty. My crime? It was alleged that I worked as a teacher for ten years, receiving well above average reviews with no complaints of any nature against me, teaching year 11 and 12 mathematics and physics but they considered I may have got my teacher's registration by misrepresentation. I am fully qualified by way - I have 4 degrees. My now ex-wife, instructed by the arresting policeman Matthew Lindsay DSC 37112, then set about isolating me from my daughter and stealing our family home through the Family Court. Oh and the reason I was refused bail? it was alleged I didn't give my residential address when arrested. Thus I spent 22 months in a cage because it was alleged I didn't give my residential address on arrest. Over four years later and I am still fighting to see my daughter. Alienating a 55 year old man from his daughter of ten (now fourteen) years is torture. State sponsored child abuse. My daughter states in the Family Court that she wants to see her father but the mother, Khaleda Barr, stops her. Welcome to the corrupt Police State of Victoria, Australia.
Thank you for your kind words but I am nothing special. This is how males are treated in this prison of a country. Australia started off as a penal settlement and the establishment still treat all its citizens as convicts. They have done exactly what the communist countries do. The establishment divide the population into two camps - the trustworthy and the untrustworthy. The elite and the peasants. The elite do not want to lose their privileges so they willingly spy on and dob in the peasants. The elite are always right and are given rewards for dobbing on the peasants. Hence the whole population is able to be watched by the establishment for minimal effort. In Australia the elite is the females and the peasants are the males. If you are a male in Australia your value is equivalent to that of a stray dog - completely expendable.
Tommy Silverstein murdered prisoners and a corrections officer over a period of years BEFORE being placed in solitary. Isolation may feel like torture, but those that repeatedly disregard the human rights of others subsequently forfeit their own.
I have starved myself with social with withdrawal, just as an average Joe. My trust in people is zero until it is earned and easily lost. Never having been a bad guy, I can only imagine, but I think based on everything I have seen, solitary should be LIMITED in the amount of time anyone spends in that sitiuation. Anyone. Yes the worst of the worst might deserve it but FALSE IMPRISONMENT happens. People go to prison for things they didn't do. People get killed in American prisons for crimes they did not do. Since there is always some element of doubt, treat people as best as you can BY DEFAULT.
I was a troubled youth I spent a lot of time in solitary confinement I will say that the majority of people broke down. As for me I was able to keep myself occupied and fit. I believe every time I left those doors I walked out stronger
@paisleyyama There are other effective ways to deal with all of those concerns without resorting to dehumanization processes. Solitary confinement and sharing cells don't have to be the only two options. Your argument is not comprehensive, neither is the current jailing system.
@paisleyyama I think they have proper beds and a better attached toilet. They spend Abt 22 hours alone, they gonna change to 20 hours alone I believe. They also get access to family visit n Internet. Please Google for better info.
We don't put people in solitary confinement only because they're a danger to themselves, but also because they're a danger to other inmates who just want to do their time in peace. Give them a rotary phone so that they can safely interact with other inmates but not with the outside world
I agree, the lady was right when she said people think inmates in solitary confinement deserve it because they do deserve it. Imagine being so dangerous that you can't be trusted around other inmates and guards, they had it coming and deserve to be in total isolation.
ADX is where the worst criminals go, the ones who cannot control their violence or enjoy it. I'm sorry but she did not convince me in the slightest. I don't think the people in ADX would give this women a ounce of compassion if the tables were turned, they don't respect human rights.
@@petehouse8380 The criminals did not lock soneone in a room, give them 3 meals, keep them warm, tend to their medical needs, give them visitors...seriously? They stabbed, slaughtered, tortured, raped and destroed lives. How can you even compare the two? There's another Ted talk on why you should feel sorry for pedophiles, might be right up your alley.
"Some people report that after years of not looking at anything further than 10 feet away, their eyesight has deteriorated so much that they can't focus on faraway objects any more."
@@ashlyncohen3556 Yes, the family are never coming back, but at least we can make someone's life worth living and remove the threat to wider society. But I also think if someone kills a entire family they should be in a mental institution, not a prison.
I spent my first month and a half on suicide watch 24 hours a day in a cell with no matress first two nights , no TP at all , no shower , no brushing , just a small blurry window , and no Meds . This was right after doing a 51/50 at a hospital near my house working on my mental health . All I think about is how bad my brain is actually fucked up even mire because of that. I wasnt even suicidal at the time , now it clouds my mind most of the day
I was in solitary confinment for 6 weeks. Difference is I knew at most I would only be there another two weeks. Maximum is 8 weeks, unless secratary of state allows longer.
I've worked at a progressive state run male prison in the US for many years. I understand that solitary confinement is absolutely unhealthy. However, many of the incarcerated individuals in solitary confinement cannot function in the general population...when they are allowed in the general population they assault other incarcerated individuals and sometimes staff....they absolutely cannot function without hurting people around them. This is often why these individuals end up in solitary confinement (and prison for that matter). What do you do with someone who cannot function normally around other people? What is the solution?
I agree we have an obligation to the inherent dignity of every human being. Remember that some of those human beings in prison also do, and many have violated that by rape, child abuse, torture, and murder.
@@jamesengland7461 most victims of voilence and crimes are the criminals themselves. I dont think its right but why should the government have a free pass to torture the ppl more then looking their freedom? (Wich is the legal punishment)
I have a professional background in corrections. Some inmates actually "want" solitary to get out of bad situations with peers and some inmates to earn status in gangs. There is a lot more to this topic than meets the eye. I general, I do agree with the speaker. But, what do you recommend be done with certain inmates given the resources and constraints of handling "certain" inmates?
For an example, this speaker brought up Thomas Silverstein, who was convicted of armed robbery. Then, in prison he murdered three others, including a corrections officer. I don't see much connection between this level of violent behavior and ordinary citizens, so my sympathy meter barely registered during this talk.
The system I am aware of (not the us) you have to be a safety risk to yourself and each other’s. attempting to kill inmates and staff for example. Now it’s a tool that is being taken away.
she is crying about the guy that has been living sooo long in solitary confinement but HE made his choices what about the guy he killed and his family that had to grow up without him??
What a bunch of garbage. How do you know these people were not disturbed before going into isolation? In fact I would say they were as they committed crimes. And I don't care if a murderer lose his rights to human interaction, he removed that choice from an entire group of people, and he doesn't deserve human interaction.
"Justice" is a fundamental impossibility. At least that is how I see it. If I killed a man for killing someone I liked, I would be harming those who loved said killer too by taking him from them as he did the one I liked. And thus be prone to retaliation. It would just turn into my death or an eternal cage I usurped from the beast. If he goes to jail for life you might as well kill him then, as all he has to look forward to is a life of captivity and his loved ones will never (if rarely) see him again. If he goes to jail for (X) years, then that is unfair to the victim. They are dead for eternity, while he waltzes free after only a portion of his time is taken. True justice is something we want, but will never have. I say simply, "go with your gut". That is the closest thing to "True Justice" you will ever get in this world. If you can handle being the monster you wish to slay, mantling its position, only to be hunted by those who would encage you or take the title... Go ahead. If you want to leave the monster to rot in a cage forever... Go ahead. If you want to forgive the monster who slayed the innocent... Go ahead. We will never have a perfect answer, so seek your own, and let nobody's judgement effect you.
Long term solitary confinement is far worse than any physical torture. After a long enough time in there you'd probably even start physically torturing yourself due to mental breakdown...
I'm sorry if this is insensitive, but I find it hard to have compassion for prisoners in this type of situation. If you dont specify the crime committed, it makes you want to relate to them, but I cant imagine that anyone is in there for petty theft or illegal squatting or something benign. If you commit a truly awful crime- enough so that it is determined that this painful existence is assigned to someone, perhaps that is just justice for whatever they did. I think it's important that someone is only placed in these conditions under the worst circumstances, but the point is that they are punished, isn't it? No one will be deterred from committing these awful crimes if the punishment is a slap on the wrist and then they get to move into a glorified old age home. Again, I sympathise on a surface level with another human in pain, but the point of justice is to reprimand those who chose to do something truly despicable. Without knowing the crimes of the prisoners I these conditions makes this difficult to judge. She also only mentioned that the one guy murdered a corrections officer. If that is all he did, the punishment seems far too harsh (as awful as murder is), but I seriously doubt that is all it took to put someone in there... Happy to hear other people's thoughts on this topic!!
Lea Calitz How do you feel about innocent people being tortured let alone anyone . It does say a lot about you though. You’d be one of Hitlers yes men or happy to give the electric shock just because you were told you had to.
@@robynadams8925 I don't believe that torturing someone innocent is the same as punishing a monster. The US has one of the best legal systems in the world and while innocent people do slip through the cracks, overall I believe that there are safe guards against that happening. The justice system has a few purposes, one of those purposes is to deter people from committing crimes. The worse the crime- the worse the punishment. If you could get away with crimes without punishment, what would stop anyone from doing anything? Again, without knowing the crimes committed by the people mentioned in this video, it is very difficult to understand exactly where the line currently is between who deserves the worst punishment vs who does not. But I will say that the victims and the families of the victims of monsters are the ones that really deserve a voice in this argument. They are the innocent ones and they deserve justice. Also the Hitler comment is unnecessary and inaccurate. Just because I dont have compassion for monsters does not mean I condone the holocaust. It does show, however, that you don't know how to argue against what I was saying in my previous comment.
Lea Calitz Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you. Friedrich Nietzsche Lea Calitz The US does torture innocent people. They sentence people to prison without trial. They send people to prison under false pretences. They torture people just because they can. They subject poor people to persecution that have no ability to defend themselves. They allow people in the highest office to get away with criminal and corrupt behaviour. Inhuman behaviour has happened in history and it will happen again if we do not adopt a more humane, ethical stance on punishment.
Thank you for your comment, Lea. It echoed my thoughts and i read this with understanding. It isn't a "do unto others" situation but rather the greater picture. Perhaps seeing someone who has lost their child or life partner (ultimately putting them into solitary confinement) to a monster and then standing up there and saying this would resonate with me more? I cannot imagine myself being sympathetic in that instance although i am now. Taking all things into account i see where your conflicting thoughts on this comes from too. I think victims on both side of the spectrum.... being the criminals and their victims would have a much greater understanding on this since they are the most affected though and this is why i have had quiet a mixed reaction? Just my 2 cents.
It is easy to imagine the hurt that a "monster" would do and then condemn that person to torture. What is difficult is to feel forgiveness and then insist upon humane punishment.
This lecture seems to purposefully avoid addressing justice for victims, many of which whose lives are ruined forever mentally and/or physically, or taken altogether.
Thats because the point of the lecture is to highlight the abject torture we perform on these humans that we are funding as taxpayers. Plus, if it were actually intended to be used as a deterrent, our government and prison systems would not go through such lengths to cover it up. Instead, they do cover it up because they know it is wrong.
Jordan Epstein I understand; however, the presenter could’ve strengthened that point by addressing what seems to be the elephant in the room, judging by the amount of other comments here about victims.
Treat other people how you like to be treated. Torture, solitary should not be inflicted on anyone. Even your worst enemy. It’s direct reflection on each of us what we stand against and what we tolerate. Each of us should think of the one being persecuted as their own child, mother, father, loved one or one self . Maybe then we could feel an ounce of what is happening.
@@sshiva6635 how about you go watch endless footage of the evils the committ, take your time, put at least 1000 hours of knowledge under your belt before you run your mouth
I admit to being conflicted about this. I believe guards and other prisoners have a right to be safe from some really dangerous individuals who maybe have been isolated. I believe it can be used as a punishment or deterrent for some. I don’t like the thought of the long term isolation. What can be done? She doesn’t say in her talk. For those that are a danger to guards and other prisoners what do we do?
Why maximum/high level security prison and long period of time punishment/sentence exist? Why not just execute the person instead wasting money torturing them? That kind of prison is just evil, imo
@@abram730 thats sad to hear, but then the problem is not the death sentence itself, am I wrong? How did they know that they're innocent? "Innocent inspection" should be the first thing they do before putting someone's life in death/life situation including 'death mentally' from long period of time in prison..
@@v-alfred Looking into cases and investigating. Things like DNA evidence prove people's innocence. It is still difficult to get innocent people out of prison.
Not sure why so many people assume that everyone in solitary is a violent criminal, not every inmate is guilty of some grand crime, some of them were even falsely imprisoned. People view the issue as black and white when it’s a mix of greys, they’d rather believe that all prisoners are guilty and deserve it than admit that their justice system is broken and that those that are incarcerated are people too. It’s easier to dismiss the suffering of others if you don’t view them as people, or view them as lesser than you, various atrocities were performed under this mindset.
It's because of people like her that rapists and killers get light sentences, the Epsteins of the world get off easier, and the Taliban get a helicopter ride back home.
Let's not forget, No one is sent to solitary confinement for Any crime in society. They are sent to prison for those crimes. It is the acts they commit while in prison that get them sent to solitary. While in prison, the victims often are ...The kinder or older or just plain weaker prisoners, with no one to watch their backs they are targeted by the more violent and aggressive ones who will stay out of solitary because they are better at not getting caught doing what they do to other prisoners. Also guards prey on certain Prisoners whom they deem weak and easy targets (they have been known to rape and beat and torture them in many ways). So some of those in solitary are there because they are victims ... and they only tried to defend themselves. So ... consider this sad fact ... Some people are sent to prison for crimes they Did Not commit (everyone in the system knows this happens) and some for non-violent crimes such as, Martha Stewart. Imagine someone like Martha Stewart (only poor and unknown) ... someone nice, non-violent ... It is often those types that become targets for the more violent prisoners. And if they just once try to defend themselves ... wham into solitary ... Besides ALL this ... I am with this lady and The Law of OUR Nation (and many other nations) saying we should not torture anyone ... and those who break that law are criminals. Torture is not allowed and this lady is telling us they are getting away with it. I believe we do need to work more on preventing any and all crimes ... by paying closer attention to the factors that contribute to crime. Few people who are sent to prison ... sight, (see) prison as the reason they stopped committing crimes. Most of the more hard core criminals had problems in their youth that was never dealt with in an effective manner ...this is when they need our attention most. Torture has never worked to decrease victims and make any family safer. Those who torture and those of us who condone it or allow it or look the other way ... are causing (or allowing) pain for no other reason than to cause (or allow) horrendous pain to someone. The Focus should be on ... Torture in All forms, to any person but especially to innocents and children, needs to, first be recognized, Then Stopped ... Today. The focus needs to be on How do we do this? Love and Peace To You and to All
So how do you safely house these people and prevent them from continuing to kill others while still in custody? I didn’t hear any suggestions or solutions.
It's perfectly possible to keep a person largely away from others [Assuming they're that dangerous] without reaching a level of outright torture. Even by merely allowing them to be outside, have access to media [TV? Books? Newspapers?], talk to other people while still physically away from them... It's really not that difficult.
Oh, I don't know. Maybe we rehabilitate them? Like how the prison system is meant to do. Solitary confinement for short periods of time if you're too out of line (like a week or something), but overall focusing on re-instilling those core societal values. And also just have guards monitoring social behaviour? I'm not saying that prison movies are all that accurate about the actual prison situation, but they at least seem to provide no shortage of ways to help keep prisoners in line. Also, you could try just thinking of anything yourself, instead of trusting other people to think for you. Making a change isn't really that difficult.
Jennifer Simone-I have no problem with putting them in solitary confinement but that also must have access to some type of notepad or reading materials to keep them form going insane.
To everyone saying terrorists and rapists and murderers deserve solitairy confinement... Most convicted criminals to that degree get decades if not life sentences in jail. Their entire life they are under threat by other inmates with their safety, fed garbage food with no proper nutrients, limited to zero medical care required, limited sunlight and outdoor time... EVERY aspect of what brought them happiness is either gone or deprived. THIS is their punishment. Not to mention the psychological effects of being inprisoned. Solitary confinement is an added torture system that needs to be revoked! Deprive someone of freedom, sure but torturing them for years on end and driving someone into insanity shouldn’t be such an easy option
Counterpoint: some, maybe even all, of these prisoners are far too dangerous to even be around other prisoners, because they may beat or kill them. At some point, your behavior makes your rights are taken away; maybe you should even be executed. What's not specified is if this solitary confinement was continuous, or temporary punishment that kept being extended because of horrid behavior. Solitary is clearly horrible. I absolutely support greatly reducing its use. Maybe, at minimum, there should be some sort of tribunal before any long term solitary confinement.
There was no debate about whether or not these inmates should be in prison. There’s no doubting that they should definitely be locked up. It’s mainly a matter of the nature of their containment. Should they be forced into a concrete cube, or a cell where it isn’t only them inside? For dangerous inmates, you could simply put them in single-mate cells instead of ISO. The fact of the matter is that it’s debatable whether or not ISO is overkill. We think that we as outsiders are above these people, when in reality, our own savagery puts us on the same level of lowness as them.
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If you take away a life that is not yours to take ... you deserve the solitary confinement .. period. There are kids as young as 3 working in mines, people starving, forests being cut off, pollution in the air and oceans, we kill millions of animals every day and hold them in cages and darkness for our own plates, but we defend a criminal that took a life away of a person that belonged in a family. I cant spare a single good caring thought for that person. Sorry.
Out of the 4 years I did in prison I did 44 days in solitary confinement. 10 Days when I first got in because of administrative segregation because I was a "high profile case". My first 10 days in jail I sat in a cell by myself with no pen or paper. With no books, or anything to keep my mind occupied besides looking over my charges. After a year I was sent to seg again because someone told the C.O.s that I was extorting them for their food. Which was false, I never did extort anyone. I went to maximum security floor because of a. false accusations. I got moved again to a lower level after a few months because of good behavior. When I was in a dorm somebody stole my food so I had to fight to get it back. I lost the fight and got 8 stitches in my head, and all the deputies cared about was "Do you want to press charges on the person that did this?" No! I don't want to punish another person even more then they are already punished. They stitched me up, and put me in seg, for 15 days. When the day came to take me out they said they didn't have enough room in population for me so I had to sit another 2 days in there until there was room. At least it was better than my first time because I had food and coffee. They messed with my mind so much that cold coffee and Cheetos actually brought me happiness on my 21st birthday. I was actually happy for the little things I had because I knew how much worse it could be. After that I got moved to prison and send to seg in there for a investigation. I was walking with someone that I knew and he got jumped by some inmates. He told the sergeant that I set him up, which I didn't. I sat in seg for another 17 days while they "investigated" this situation." They charged me with a 104 which is gang aggravated assault. 100 is murder. I didn't do anything at all...... I sat there for 17 days not knowing wether I would get found guilty or not. The anxiety sticks with me till this day that now I have a mental illness because of this. I am very grateful that someone is actually using their platform to speak for the people who are silenced. This was very powerful!! Thank you for exposing the torture that goes on every day in this country to kids who aren't even old enough to drink.
Do you think you could’ve managed solitary confinement if you were locked into a box you couldn’t even turn around in due to the size of the box?
2.6 years in solitary 15 years ago. The people now pay my SSDI because from one day to the next I don’t know what is happening. During that 2.6 years I was starve and denied water for over a week and had to drink filthy water out of my non flushing toilet. Not because I did anything wrong that they could write a disciplinary case for, but because I wrote numerous Texas and Federal agencies asking for help, not for me but for two mentally ill inmates the guards regularly starved. One agency in all those letters actually contacted the prison ( they didn’t bother to monitor the problem, just informed the guards I’d complained.) I learned from that experience that if I didn’t one day destroy this country that there would be no change because we had already slid past the point of fixing the problems within the guidelines of the current rules and laws. Thank you all for supporting me in my efforts.
Donald please contact me. I was also in solitary confinement and I suffer from the after effects everyday. My email is
abettersolution14@gmail.com
Thankyou for sharing
What did you do to get in there
What happens to people in solitary confinement, stays in solitary confinement.
Ive been locked in for 15 days at county during one of my bids before and I cannot even imagine for one second going through what you went through! You need to write a book. You must be so strong mentally to even be alive right now.. people don't even realize what it means to be in that situation, a minute feels like an hour.. I mean I cabt compare my story to yours but I guess what I'm trying to say is I've had a taste and I know for a fact I would have killed myself probably within 3 months of what you went through. Damn, god bless you man
in life we give out and get what we look for ... sometimes ... VERY RARELY ... we get the statistical outliers ... if we follow our track and the law ... it's mostly going to be ok ...
Leave someone alone long enough to find themselves, not long enough to lose their minds.
Who says the two aren't synonymous?
@@Trailtracker There are many people throwing around phrases like 'find myself', not having really grasped the profundity of such a realisation. If these prisoners were to 'find themselves' then they would no longer be suffering their own minds. This is true for any human being and with this being understood you can see that not only does such a comment have a place here but the topic is among the most important dialogues that our species can be having right now. I am not condoning the actions of the American justice system by any means but these prison cells could be a curse or a blessing depending on how the prisoners use the time. Given a little guidance, it could be a completely transformative experience that could take a matter of days. Unfortunately, they're being completely neglected with what appears to be a ploy to remove them from society rather than helping them to overcome the thoughts that lead them to commit such crimes in the first place.
If those that are responsible for this wilful neglect 'found themselves', they simply would not be able to subject another human being to such conditions. It could be true that perhaps they need this more than the prisoners.
Until every human being understands the nature of their existence, there will always be a place for such dialogues.
@@HaxUK
Awesome, human comment. Appreciate your humanity. Peace
@@HaxUK Very true. Someone like a Buddhist monk would probably love this place. All the time in the world to meditate and no need to work for food.
Then again, someone who isn't trying / wanting to find themselves, it would be torture.
Might make all the difference if they threw some books in there about meditation.
What are you moaning about? it's like a free getaway for them, peace and quiet, away from raping and killing innocent people, it's technically a vacation.
This is going on in all prisons not just ADX.
Are you a former prisoner or how you get arrive to this conclusion dot-to-dot
She said that in the video. ADX is just extrem and probably has the highest percentage of prisoners in solitary confinement.
@@ammarif618 I worked in a prison.
@@dot-to-dot Let me guess, 5 start hotels for serial rapists is what you want? ISIS deserves a second chance?
@@ManTheManLV255 you also have to keep in mind that there are very high-profile criminals such as terrorists there. El Chapo is there. They do not want to enable the prisoners to let people on the outside know of a way to get to the inside so that there could be a Prison Break. ADX is a supermax prison so of course the restrictions are going to be greater because that's where the worst of the worst are incarcerated.
The best way to beat the unbearable conditions of prison is to stay on the right side of the law and not go there.
My brother spent his whole adult life in and out of prison for being a drug addict and after 21 years in all in and out over the years he came out the same brother I knew everytime he was what was called a problem because he had so much charisma they felt he was a security risk and he spent 1 years in solitary confinement and when he got out and came home he was a shell of his former self they broke him changed him forever I have done solitary confinement on a short term myself and what this talk is informing you about is very real and very much torture and should be band as a long term solution for any human being weather or not they are a bad person
It’s horrible what it does to people. I pray your brother finds healing and can make good somehow of that experience.
I DID 8 MONTHS IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT. I HAD NO WINDOWS, NO MATTRESS,( MATRESS AT NIGHT BUT TOOK IT IN THE MORNING)NO TOILET..JUST A HOLE IN THE FLOOR. BEAN CAKE 3 TIMES A DAY.AND SOME KIND OF COFFEE/TEA MIXTURE. (LOST 30 LBS)ONE 5-MINUTE SHOWER A WEEK .. IT WAS BAD BUT NOT AS BAD AS YALL SAYING IT IS . ITS CALLED PUNISHMENT.
@@mattheww239 I DID 8 MONTHS IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT. I HAD NO WINDOWS, NO MATTRESS,( MATRESS AT NIGHT BUT TOOK IT IN THE MORNING)NO TOILET..JUST A HOLE IN THE FLOOR. BEAN CAKE 3 TIMES A DAY.AND SOME KIND OF COFFEE/TEA MIXTURE. (LOST 30 LBS)ONE 5-MINUTE SHOWER A WEEK .. IT WAS BAD BUT NOT AS BAD AS YALL SAYING IT IS . ITS CALLED PUNISHMENT.
@@salamjihad3449 To me what you just described is worse than bad. Though you would know better than I.
I believe in punishment. But I also believe people need love to heal.
my aunt and her husband, both US residents, were in Egypt on holiday when they were taken into prison arbitrarily and put in solitary confinement for over 2 years now. no one from my family has been able to have any contact with them, not even the lawyer has been able to speak to them. we are extremely worried about their health. my aunt is the sweetest, kindest, gentle and caring person I know. we feel very helpless.
Any update?
@@Smokeyxz they let my aunt out earlier this year. unfortunately her husband is still there.
@@ameera14 What did they do? Illeagle substance possession ?
@@brutallyhonestguy5985 They literally did nothing.
Do you have update about them?
I did 12 months and 25 days in solitary it brutal so so so hopeless!!!! we need more awareness!!!! great video
I used to complain about being grounded cause i felt it drove me crazy but that's not anywhere close to even a fraction of what those in solitary must feel
good. think what their victims live with for the rest of their days.
@@davideasiebert1941 It's not just violent criminals that go to solitary. Moreover, even if it were, what makes us better by being savage?
Hence the answer to the argument...obey or pay.
@@alwells5779 you want these folks as neighbors? depends on why they are there. some criminals are not worth taking the chance. If somebody sodomized your wife or child would you want them free? I live near this place and I hope their security is good.
@@davideasiebert1941 Who said anything about being free? There are hundreds of people in that prison and you're making up a straw man. Each one is there for whatever they are there for and while we are not talking about setting criminals free, we are talking about how to behave as a society and it's far more likely that people are in prison for things like marijuana violations (and then get sent to solitary for some sort of rules violation within prison) than sodomizing someone's child so if you're going to pick a straw man, at least pick one that's more likely to be found to have real legs.
Solitary confinement is one of the worst experience ever, and I wasn’t the one locked up! My ex husband spent 6 months there and I can say those 6 months were the worst of his sentence! I remember the first time I saw him after he got “visitation approval” which was through a monitor! And wow! I saw him so weak so scared and sad! Yet I remember I tried to put a smile cuz of course I was happy to see him! But after leaving I went home and cried so much just thinking of all the horrible things he was going through. Its inhumane! And everything she says its true he would tell me some crazy stories! I remember i did everything I could to make his time there less horrible, but I could only try yet only they know what it truly feels! Wish no one had to experience this from either side!
I was in prison for almost 3 years for drugs after I was sentenced and went from county jail to "diagnostics and evaluation" D&E I was held in a small cell for 23 hours a day under close watch until the institute decided where to send me ... It was there my eyesight went from totally fine to needing very strong prescription glasses to see also kinda lost my mind .. this video get a thumbs up from me
It's also common for submariners. After having nothing but objects up close to focus on, the eye muscles atrophy.
Or
Genetics just cought up to you.
Good point
Boo hoo don’t break the laws
@@leveljoe What an a**hole thing to say to a man who was just telling his truth with honour...what is your problem?
@Diana B- “level joe” didn’t say anything bad to Michael. It is the other joe, “Joe&Jacob Copeland” that was being low to Michael. (Just typing this comment in case “level joe” checked the comment’s section- he doesn’t deserve the mixup).
I am actually happy that there is a person like her who fights for people in solitary.
I know quite well what Solitary can do to a person.
I spent 120 days in solitary. It started because I had a blanket on my feet and didn't take it off my feet when told. Mind you it's under 60°F most of the time.
Once I was locked in solitary (I got 45 days for the initial blanket on my feet) I slowly was losing my bearings day by day, and would get new "charges" for things like hanging a picture on the wall of my cell, because it was becoming more and more difficult to keep a grasp on reality.
One minute felt like one hour, one hour felt like half a day, and one day dragged on for what felt like almost a week. And a week felt like a month, and a month like eternity.
By one out of four months in I was hallucinating which could make time slow even more. I'd talk to myself, and some things are just to hard on your mind to talk about, even years later.
The absolute pure dread I feel now when encountering police officers is so noticeable that it always singles me out for harassment. I have night terrors that leave me shaken for days.
I've found it difficult to function most my adult years because of this experience I went through at 18 years old.
My initial crime? Stealing something when I was homeless with a value of less than $100 dollars.
That's the crime I committed to "deserve" an experience that's fucked me up ever since. The experience has caused me to make other bad decisions that led to more jail. Like instinctively running from police out of that extreme sense of dread, whether or not I did anything wrong. Or resisting arrest over a ticket because I had a panic attack and fought the officer.
So maybe one day someone can explain to me why the PTSD this caused me was worth the initial crime and jail "charge" I committed.
When I was 19, I was sentenced to 30 days in a city jail for a misdemeanor. The city jailer confined me to my own space away from regular traffic. Since it wasn't an overcrowded county jail, I was forced to serve the entirety of my 30 days. I was in solitude and had zero time outside of the cell. Ten years later, I'm socially awkward and developed a speech impediment. My therapist tells me it was a major source of trauma in my life.
@YoshiPeach Mario It was a reckless driving charge that got pled down from a felony.
So the crime you committed caused you this trauma. Take responsibility.
PC!
@@katkameo6413 I do and I did. It completely changed my life. I was going down a bad road at the time. After that experience, I turned it all around and became a productive citizen of society. The original comment was made to highlight the consequences of solitary confinement as opposed to being kept in gen pop like a lot of my friends were.
@@ronsteelable9405 That's great news! Ive known many corrections officers. The more these monsters are given an inch of freedom, they manipulate and use it to their advantage. They will kill, rape or beat a guard with zero regard for any humanity. If this speaker could, she'd give them cable, mountain views and a sleep number bed.
spent one year in solitary confinement, 24/7 lock down, no windows no yard no contact with friends of family. only conversation was with the guards that brought me my three meals and weekly 5 min shower. been free for a year now. but im still in solitary confinement mentally
I hope you recover from it I’m so sorry you had to go through that
Same...i can't stand being around crowds of people or people being close to me
I DID 23 MONTHS IN SOLITARE CONFINEMENT. I HAD NO WINDOWS, NO MATTRESS ,NO TOILET..JUST A HOLE IN THE FLOOR. BEAN CAKE 3 TIMES A DAY. I SHOWER A WEEK .. I TOOK IT AS A BAD MEMORY BUT THATS IT.
“What is freedom except the ability to unite with who you are and why you are here? The inability to do this represents the lack of freedom in all of its manifestations.”
Steps to Knowledge - The Book of Inner Knowing
i'll check that book out
What freedom is there to the victim who's been killed. Freedom to be buried and rot away?
@@ThePresentation010 There are horrendous things that happen to people that may not be able to be avoided; however, there is an inner voice we all have that attempts to protect us from tragic circumstances if we can hear it and respond to it. It's that voice that may say, "Don't go there, tonight." or "Don't say that." or " Be very careful." I heard that voice when I was in the middle of a spin on an icy road. The voice said, "Let go of the wheel." Instinctively I did. Once the car landed, it was inches from a telephone pole. Had I not listened, the outcome would have been worse. I know a women who was going into a bank. As she reached for the door handle, she felt a strong urge not to go in. She didn't heed that urge and ended up being a hostage in a bank holdup. So Steps to Knowledge is a powerful spiritual study that slowly builds a relationship to that "still small voice' that lives in all of us.
Throw her in ISO and everyone who thinks like her, for life.
Next on PED CHAT - "Why Guantanamo sux, and why ISIS deserves a second chance"
You can't torture a monster without becoming one yourself.
Agree
Agree.
Not all people suffering solitary confinement are monsters
I struggle so hard with this. Thank you for giving me some very big topics to battle within myself. I have 4 of 5 family members that go through the prison system regularly and my personal battle with right and wrong and punishment for such is so disorienting now.
The fact that some schools have started doing this as well is scary...
But the scary thing in this life is that the number of little girls is increasing magically is scary....
What we can eat if little girls are getting the whole food that exist in our planet earth .... this make and have made me out of my mind for many years ago 😨😨😨😱😱
@Heidi Yodel but the meaning is easy to get from my weird response .... do it
Fayssal Amin Noone knows what your talking about dude.
@@ammarif618 yeah no, Google translate is better
@Fayssal Amin Yes It is scary how there are many little girls in the world having to eat whole foods that soon we would not have any food to eat, overpopulation is scary.
Stop by a nursing home and say hello to your grandparents and parents. Someday, you'll be there, if you live long enough and then, you too will experience solitary confinement.
So true, my mother is old but she’s in her own place, but I feel so guilty because I suffer from social anxiety and travelling to her place makes me unwell since I get panic attacks but I’m sure one day I will. Hate myself even more , life’s so weird!
The evil goes deep in this country.
for my grandpa its not as bad as solitary confinement but he does have alzheimer and even tho he would prefer dying at this point they won't let him cuz they profit by keeping him alive.. it's not about "evil" it's about incentive
@@abram730
Do you wonder why you're hated?
Oh God. I was thinking the same thing. It's a horror show beyond belief.
Once you've accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.
that's facts
Using a human rights talk to advertise... I know whom I would not want as a coach.
I do like this statement. However, I'm wondering how this would apply to someone's history, especially as a "credible" witness in a trial.
Throw her in ISO and everyone who thinks like her, for life.
😁💚
On the outside, when we feel like we need help, we go talk to someone who knows about that subject. We don’t lock ourselves in our house and isolate from the world. Because it’s not natural for humans to be alone. History has proven that so many times that the only reason there could ever be for solitary confinement is torture. You can’t expect people to magically understand how to change their behavior by locking them away from the resources they need to get that information. If you want change, then you have to teach them how they are expected to behave. Right now, they are thrown into a confined area full of other people who also don’t know how to act in society and treated in a way that causes them to become aggressive simply to survive. We need change but I don’t know how.
I've met people at many phases of release after solitary confinement....after 6 months it's scary what it does to a man
Or they are just psychos and sociopaths who go nuts in their inability to manipulate others.
Hey Teflon Smile where may I ask did u meet these people ...
so tru Solitary is the only thing that still makes me shake when thinking about it
@@Soberdogs based off your name I take ur a recovering addict were u in prison for drugs like me sir ... Solitary sucks
4 months 23 hour iso a lil late on I got into an argument w a pedophole and refused to lock down w a person like that and was shoved in the seg unit for 3 weeks ... I actually enjoyed the first couple days of privacy away from the general population but I really was talking to myself at the end of it
I spent 5 months in solitary confinement when I was in second grade thanks to my abusers. 23 hour lockdown on the weekends and 15 hours a day during the week for school. The beating I received in first grade kept me terrified and compliant. Later in 7th grade I did 10 months in solitary. As before nothing in my room/cell but a bed and a dresser. I cheated and snuck a book in to read, terrified I would get caught reading and be beaten. My abusers went on to have successful lives. I'm 52 and have been mostly homeless my adult life. ABUSERS SUCK!
did they touch your beehive?
@@chevchelios3904 feel free to leave
Mike Nonya I’m so sorry that happened to you. I hope you can free your mind and be at peace very soon. I also hope your living situation gets better. Sending HOPE and love to you wherever you are in the world friend
Keep your head up
My thoughts and prayers go out to you Mike 🙏 If you ever want to talk, just reply to me here and I will respond. I am so sorry you suffered so horribly by the people who should have provided you love and a place of safety. Bless you 🙏
The practice of solitary confinement has to end. My husband spent 23 years in solitary confinement. I cannot begin to explain the way the effects of that torture manifest itself in him. He has OCD, ADHD, depression, anxiety. He doesn’t do well around too many people. If I leave the cap off of a bottle of water in between drinks he will hyper focus on it to the point he doesn’t hear you speaking to him. It is hard to watch. His son my stepson passed away from fentanyl about 6 months ago and it’s so hard on all of us but for him he will obsess. He thinks it’s his fault or karma for his past life. He is institutionalized. He doesn’t spit in the sink when he brushes his teeth he likes to be asleep by 7:30 and wakes up at 3:30. Loud noises make his anxiety jump. He had COVID 3 times in prison and it took its toll on him. But thankfully I can say that in spite of all of this he is actually the most level headed and fair man I have ever known. Prison is difficult (and yes it is a necessary institution) but there is absolutely no need for solitary isolation
What people don’t talk about is what it actually takes to go to solitary confinement. You just don’t break the law and go there. You have to be the worst of the worst. Not fixable. Also most developed countries other than the us really don’t have true solitary confinement but are now forced to keep inmates unlocked.
some jails get away with more, locking people up if they are biased towards one prisoner, and sometimes it isn’t the worst of the worst which is what most people are worried about
@@latisharae6996 open communication is key. If its cruel for no reason that is no good. But I know for a fact many developed countries that actually take good care of prisons are now loosing the ability to separately confine those who endanger others. Its a scary time.
Not true. People in county are doing 23 hours a day for drug possession.
@@sideshowbob8220 You work there?
Isolation is like being buried alive. The lack of human contact is inhumane.
I've experienced solitary confinement for up to months at a time. I wasn't even in a prison known for being bad but still often would prefer solitary to dual or group confinement. I was surprised how much you seemed to know about the system but you seem to have little to no knowledge of prisoner to prisoner interactions. I don't discourage your interest. I encourage your involvement but please take the time to find out about the problems of prisoner to prisoner interactions. I look forward to finding out about your future involvement in this issue.
We have an obligation to bear witness. To basic human dignity. Amen ma'am. Thank you.
This is the way the animals you eat are treated, and they did no crime.
Eric Standefer ,?????
But you alright are you?
That is true...
But bacon tastes good so be quiet nerd.
@Sir Gerbil Macintosh it may taste nice, but it’s the truth.
I was put in solitary confinement for 30 days, as a 16 year old girl for the crime of calling the police on my abusive step-father. I committed no crime and was treated worse than most murderers. I was tortured for asking "the helpers" for help. Mr. Rodgers was wrong.
This happened to me for only 3 nights and i was withdrawing off of legal pharmaceuticals with that feeling my stress and mental heath was so severe. I can relate ..
What about all the humans who live in solitary confinement in their own homes? Elderly? Disabled? We dont think about these people!
I wonder what the victims (if they're still alive) or the victims families think about these prisoners in maximum security prisons and solitary confinement? Kind of hard to empathize with this view.
But that`s completely different things - security prison and solitary confinement. When you know the criminal is in security prison you are calm and satisfied, but when you know the criminal is tortured (as the speaker states) in solitary confinement you are satisfied only if you are sadistic. I would feel uneasy knowing such thing.
Also, I would suggest that only contacting/cooperating with another people criminal individual can achieve the change, can be rehabilitated, while in solitary confinement he can only degrade/disintegrate.
@@ytnamax You are attaching human values to
stephaniejones08, and he is not human. He walks on 2 legs, but there is nothing human in him.
@@abram730 Nah, he's just a child by his comment
God bless this woman speaking.
Perhaps being being locked in solitary confinement should be considered before someone leaves their home with the intention of taking another persons life or committing a severely heinous act ?
Sadly, there are far too many people who for various reasons find themselves living an existence akin to solitary confinement despite not being criminals, just because they have no family or are housebound/disabled.
David Shenton Don't disagree with the forst part but he second?
You can knock on someone's door. Uou see people at the grocery. You comment on posts online. You can pay a prostitute to listen to you for fuck's sake. The opportunity is what matters.
You clearly have no idea of reality. Many many pensioners can go weeks without seeing a single soul, and if you have depression, the last thing you'll be thinking of is to go knocking on peoples doors for conversation. As for paying a prostitute? Are you going to pay ? Or can you get Government assistance for it in your country? I'm in the UK and I honestly wouldn't have the first clue how to go about finding one, even if I wanted to 😂 Many people don't live in areas quite as friendly as some so perhaps it's not really suitable to say "just go knocking on doors"? As it happens I've lived in my home for 9 years and I actually only know the name of one of my next door neighbours ! and I do also know that I have two part time drug dealers and at least one violent offender and one aggressive "curtain twitcher" so which one should I go and pester? 😜 I'm not complaining for me, I'm just sympathetic of others that I know for a fact are not able to do what you so insensitively suggest.
You need to try putting yourself in the position of a widowed old lady that has no children to phone and has depression because she can't get over the loss of her husband. It's an important enough reality for it to be highlighted in TV adverts over here, so I know you're wrong 😒
What is more American than killing and torturing? Why are you punishing them for acting American? - - > profit's for privet prisons?
I don't want to pay for that in my taxes. Let them get real jobs.
Those saying they deserve this punishment, who are missing the point entirely, the following is addressed to you.
These people have been let down by everyone else who had better opportunities, or rather, it's the people with better opportunities that can prevent the sorts of pathologising upbringings that create such victims (criminals). So long as we point fingers at them, we appoint responsibility upon them, hold them accountable, this is illogical, it simply won't help. Tragedies will continue to occur. Society is accountable... the masses, and the collective society has the power to prevent the sorts of upbringings that lead to such self-destructive minds from occurring.
We celebrate surviving heroes, who come away "unscathed" from battles, but as soon as their wounds cause us inconvenience (in America, glorified veteran "heroes" are regularly discarded to the streets because they have PTSD)... we condemn them to the streets regardless of whether their battle was a "victory" or a loss. This is uncivilized, cruel and it's quite frankly thick/stupid to notice but make no effort to address such exemplarily atrocious "cooperation" (social interaction). It's this sort of logical fallacy/inconsistency that is fueling our inability to cooperate as a species, that's fueling our potential total self-annihilation as a species. It's our failure to work together and in turn, working against each other, that's destroying the planet. It's this total disregard for honest cooperation that's rendering populations increasingly apathetic and creating a negative feedback loop, hence the increasing sociopolitical chaos in the western world.
Of whatever sort you can think of, criminals are just as much the victims as those that are hurt by their actions, who do so as a result of the rest of society neglecting their vulnerability. They are the fallen, the ones who got the short straw, who took the hardest hits due to our overall lack of competence as a species, members of the tribe we weren't able to defend only for us to just say "it was their fault that they couldn't keep up"... even though we're not talking about fleeing predators in hunter-gatherer times, we're talking about newborn children being neglected from the start and abused thereafter, crippled from the misprogramming of their psychological framework. They're more worthy of appreciation than those who go up against lesser obstacles and live to tell tales of heroic victory. Blaming them is hopelessly naive and counterproductive. If you don't look after one part of your system, the whole thing will fall apart, this is a relative universe, everything is linked like gears in a clock, this isn't complicated.
Whilst some pathologised people may not be able to be rehabilitated after the damage is done, all deserve the utmost care and attention, and deserve being helped to find some quality of life in the crippled states we left them to endure until something went wrong for us, we continue to enable these tragedies every day we're pretending they are the problem, for not just magically deciding to break the second law of thermodynamics (simple cause and effect - neuroscientists are increasingly beginning to denounce free will, and believe it's all predetermined). If they can't be rehabilitated, they deserve an as comfortable as possible supervised-care program that protects them as well as others from their malfunctioning. Regardless of their inability to cooperate with and in and turn support us, we should still strive to support them as best we can. We owe it to them. We give this care to those that meet culture's current definition of handicapped, the law system does anyway, but there are still many cases of nurses abusing the elderly with dementia etc, this psychological disorder is the same illness.
In reality, you're just a very angry, very afraid and very lost
conforming ape (ape, like the rest of us, that's not meant insultingly) trying to exist in a world far out of your natural habitat, that you didn't spend billions of years adapting to. A program trying to function on a borderline incompatible operating system. You're glitching out. It's understandable, I don't judge you. Anger/Violence (rage) is simple a neurological response to anomalies that we can't conceive of any way to resolve and therefore get past, other than with pure destructive force. Trying to rip the door open off its hinges because you can't work out how to unlock it. This is normal considering how foreign your environment is to your brain, and how abstract and advanced the world has become. If it's all cause and effect, you're doing your best, as is the rest of the violent inciting Populus, and things will simply work out or they won't... life will have done its best. Just know that it's the hatred and blaming of others for things they cannot solve but we can, or being logical and approaching things calmly, that will make ALL of the difference between life annihilating itself or thriving and going intergalactic - overcoming the infamous "great filter". It's not easy to understand and resolve the problems of the world, how to help everyone cooperate, but I can promise you that the solution does not involve trying to hurt one and other.
To deny criminals their innocence is to condemn the blind person for walking into you, even though you saw them approaching yet refused to move out of their way.f their way.
Don't smoke propaganda, and don't share useless over complex excuses in the word salads you do, instead take a trip to ISIS inc and help the poor lost souls :), that or open your heart 💗❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤 and home to these lost souls by creating safe spaces for them 🥰
Makes me think about the lives of industrial farm animals..
If animals dont wanna b eaten they why r they made of food?
What about other people around the world ?
I still find myself having much more sympathy for the animals compared to a child rapist spending 10 years in solitary.
As if there isn't enough human suffering anywhere/everywhere in the world that you chose to focus on animals instead of your fellow man?
Sad.
@@leveljoe It's hard to have sympathy for a person that rapes children. Frank, on the other hand, who lives down the street, is lucky to speak to someone for more than 10 seconds of small talk. His wife is dead and has no family and nobody visits.
What do you do with prisoner's who terrorize and torture other inmates daily. Some people need to be isolated if they continue committing violent crimes.
This is what amazing speeches look like... It breaks my heart for those ppl regardless of crimes. Prison is bad enough
Reading some of the comments, me thinketh if crime did not exist, it would have to be invented to sate the public thirst for punishment.
That's exactly what is happening.
I think the problem here is the not caring part, and the lust for revenge. I thought to have understood that the crime rate in - I believe it was Norway - was far lower.
And they treat people in prisons with respect, despite what these people have done.
The only thing keeping me from laughing at them for being tortured is not knowing their crimes. They could be terrorists, rapists, child abusers, and still get more rights and compassion than the most innocent and abused beings on the planet: non-human animals. Not only that, they will keep torturing and murdering non-human animals to feed those prisoners. Sorry not sorry.
humans are animals lol
@stoeger 2 Of course. The system is flawed and many people get disproportionate sentences, and statistically, there must be some innocent people in jail or not guilty enough to deserve being in prison. However, I'm sure the former happens far less than we might think. When someone is proven to be innocent there's too much outcry and noise in the media. Justified, don't get me wrong, but it makes us perceive people are thrown into jail for the heck of it all the time, which I'm positive is not the case. Incidentally, black men are more likely to be wrongfully convicted than white men. That increases the perception of injustice.
The entire system of prisons and punishments needs to be overhauled.
Yeah, if everyday joe doesn't know about this its not longer even the punishment that scares off criminals - it is just pure revange / sweeping under the rug.
She should be thrown in solitary for comparing ISIS to innocent people being tortured and lumping in our heroes like John McCain with savages like the Taliban and Al Quida who fly planes into buildings and enjoy slaughtering innocent people, if she can't tell the difference between savages and psychopaths she has no business being on TED, but TED is pathetic as it gets so maybe she does, whats next? ISIS deserves a second chance? milk and cookies for ISIS? let them out kuz everyone is human?
Left@rd compares innocent people and war heroes like John McCain to psychopaths, serial r@pists and murders like ISIS, trained seal audience clap on command, youLUBE commenters want "JUSTICE" and fair treatment for people who would run their family over 100x over, they want to give Dylan Roof Adam Lanza and Charles Manson voting rights and 5 star hotel treatment, welcome tot he Commiefornia, where you will lose your sanity and you can never leave, kinda like a ISO cube :) .
whats wrong with safe spaces? isn't that what leftard zombie freaks want?
@@chevchelios3904 MS13 are fine people and you are not allowed to call them animals :-)
All that is said here, sad but true, is what's happening to Julian Assange in Belmarsh prison in Britain now. Officials in US are trying their best to bring him to US and continue the torture here!
Bruce Asadi Absolute barbarism.
So, what about their crimes...? Or their victims, specially the ones that are dead... what about the torture to the victim's family members?
yeah that's way easier than thinking this through, just blow it off, lazy
Solitary confinement is indeed a torture. But she (deliberately?) took the wrong 'lot' to advertise the idea. Most (all?) of prisoners she was talking about are violent and/or perverted animals who belong to that place which she described in such a great detail (informative, families of victims of these animals may get some comfort).
On the other hand, it would've been naturally better to start with solitaries as an abuse of power from justice system towards people who eventually will be back to society, needlessly overdamaged - but somehow she did not pay much attention to that aspect. Late TED as usual...
You made a great assessment Dan for many many people our society has no alternative either solitary confinement or the death penalty however for those destined to return to society solitary confinement returns to society a fundamentally more damaged person who is then asked to be a more responsible person than they were before they were incarcerated. ...And this speaks only to a justice system that is perfect and incarcerates no one unjustly.
If you treat prisoners like animals, don't be surprised when they act like one.
Left@rd compares innocent people and war heroes like John McCain to psychopaths, serial r@pists and murders like ISIS and Charles Manson, trained seal audience clap on command. youLUBE commenters want "JUSTICE" and fair treatment for people who would run their family over 100x over then r@pe them with fish hooks, they want to give Dylan Roof Adam Lanza and Charles Manson voting rights and 5 star hotel treatment, welcome to the insanity that is Commiefornia, where you will lose your sanity and you can never leave, kinda like a ISO cube :), also whats wrong with safe spaces? isn't that what lefrard zombie freaks of nature want ? leftards want safe spaces now that they got them they cry rivers of soy
@@Mister_Clipster the reason they are in prison is because they act worse than animals, even animals don't do what these humans do
It is 100% deserved torture
Would you want them living next door instead? Some are so violent that if you put them all together they would kill each other. So then execute them? you don't want that either. They are even a danger to any doctors wanting to treat or study them. I have no pity, being a rape victim I want the all locked away so they don't do this to other children. The people who were their victims (if they live) are in a mental prison made by them. I have no pity.
Because there is nothing in between torture and total freedom...
Schönling G. Wunderbar 🙄🙄 like nothing between murdered , raped and other heinous crimes and life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 🤬🤬🤬🗽🗽🗽🗽🗽
I'd GLADLY bring back the death sentence if it means removing solitary confinement, i'd make that trade without hesitation in a finger snap. Mental torture is alot worse than you think...
@@jontancool9181 tell me about it. Being terrified for years unable to sleep, having no normal relationship, spend thousands on psychiatrist and I am supposed to have pity on the person who did this to me. I am not that much of a liberal.
I think it depends upon the crime. Serial killers who murder and torture or rape children or any others tear apart families. Did they think about the psyche of the the people they killed and their families? I am 100% against the death penalty but I think solitary confinement would be something I would want for someone who raped, tortured and killed my family. I have mixed feelings about this subject. I think the youth of today who are imprisoned need to have more chance for rehabilitation. After all, the human brain isn't even done developing until age 25. I think if I was in solitary I would want to be executed. But I've not had more than a speeding ticket in my life. Thank you for the interesting take on this controversial subject though.
Why against death penalty then? It is masses of people who oppose death penalty has lead US to build these places.
@@MajkaSrajka I am against the death penalty because I believe that we, as human beings, cannot be 100% sure beyond any doubt whatsoever that a person is guilty. Only God knows that. I can see the next question....isn't solitary confinement the same idea? No, in my opinion. I think solitary confinement is reserved only for those who commit the most heinous, multiple offenses and that there is evidence that the crime was committed that is compelling and can be proven. I think solitary confinement is overly used though. I am just grateful that I have not had any trouble with the law. I think it is for the worst imaginable cases. I agree that it would make a prisoner more dangerous because if the damage to his psyche but again, I think it is overly used. Because of damage to the psyche I think these prisoners need to be segregated also. They most likely cannot be integrated into the general prison population.
@@laurenbahr3556 If people who are put in solitary confinement are proven criminals with evidence why cant they get the death sentence then? I'd argue Solitary confinement is FAR worse than a quick death. It's certainly comparable to physical torture, in that case would you want prisons to be allowed to slowly cut of toes and fingers of criminals, let it heal and then repeat?
@@jontancool9181 Absolutely not. I would rather die by legal injection too but if someone does these horrible unimaginable crimes do I think they should have computer privileges, go out and exercise, develop friendships, get visits from people and such things? NO! I guess life is precious and these hardened criminals had no right to do what they did to another human being. I have 8 kids, 20 grandkids and 1 great grandson. If someone killed one of these loved ones in a horrific manner and had been serial killers I would be for solitary confinement. I'd like to see a study done on how many of these families that have had this happen to them have committed suicide because of their loss. Families are destroyed not just the victims.
@@laurenbahr3556 Who is advocating for computer privileges, exercise privileges etc. though? Do you know what solitary confinement is? its nothing. complete emptiness, lack of any stimuli for the brain, most people would go batshit crazy in a couple weeks, let alone multiple years. If anything all im advocating for is access to books. I agree on to let them rot in there, but they are literally tearing off their own flesh in solitary confinement, how is that any way, shape or form humane?
What happens to other people when there not in solitary confinement?
I have been in prison some men...SOME, are literally just animals waiting to attack, I have seen them go off for no reason or for very minor ones.
But solitary is rough, idk......what is the answer.
I live in Australia. They have torture here as well. I was held in a cell (cage) in a maximum security prison - the Metropolitan Remand Centre - 22 hours a day for 22 months on REMAND. Assumed innocent until proven guilty. My crime? It was alleged that I worked as a teacher for ten years, receiving well above average reviews with no complaints of any nature against me, teaching year 11 and 12 mathematics and physics but they considered I may have got my teacher's registration by misrepresentation. I am fully qualified by way - I have 4 degrees. My now ex-wife, instructed by the arresting policeman Matthew Lindsay DSC 37112, then set about isolating me from my daughter and stealing our family home through the Family Court. Oh and the reason I was refused bail? it was alleged I didn't give my residential address when arrested. Thus I spent 22 months in a cage because it was alleged I didn't give my residential address on arrest. Over four years later and I am still fighting to see my daughter. Alienating a 55 year old man from his daughter of ten (now fourteen) years is torture. State sponsored child abuse. My daughter states in the Family Court that she wants to see her father but the mother, Khaleda Barr, stops her. Welcome to the corrupt Police State of Victoria, Australia.
I'm terribly sorry. I bet they wouldn't treat your wife this way.
Thank you for your kind words but I am nothing special. This is how males are treated in this prison of a country. Australia started off as a penal settlement and the establishment still treat all its citizens as convicts. They have done exactly what the communist countries do. The establishment divide the population into two camps - the trustworthy and the untrustworthy. The elite and the peasants. The elite do not want to lose their privileges so they willingly spy on and dob in the peasants. The elite are always right and are given rewards for dobbing on the peasants. Hence the whole population is able to be watched by the establishment for minimal effort. In Australia the elite is the females and the peasants are the males.
If you are a male in Australia your value is equivalent to that of a stray dog - completely expendable.
Tommy Silverstein murdered prisoners and a corrections officer over a period of years BEFORE being placed in solitary. Isolation may feel like torture, but those that repeatedly disregard the human rights of others subsequently forfeit their own.
I have starved myself with social with withdrawal, just as an average Joe. My trust in people is zero until it is earned and easily lost. Never having been a bad guy, I can only imagine, but I think based on everything I have seen, solitary should be LIMITED in the amount of time anyone spends in that sitiuation. Anyone. Yes the worst of the worst might deserve it but FALSE IMPRISONMENT happens. People go to prison for things they didn't do. People get killed in American prisons for crimes they did not do. Since there is always some element of doubt, treat people as best as you can BY DEFAULT.
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I was a troubled youth I spent a lot of time in solitary confinement I will say that the majority of people broke down. As for me I was able to keep myself occupied and fit. I believe every time I left those doors I walked out stronger
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@paisleyyama There are other effective ways to deal with all of those concerns without resorting to dehumanization processes. Solitary confinement and sharing cells don't have to be the only two options. Your argument is not comprehensive, neither is the current jailing system.
@paisleyyama can follow Norwegian model. Still very humane
@paisleyyama I think they have proper beds and a better attached toilet. They spend Abt 22 hours alone, they gonna change to 20 hours alone I believe. They also get access to family visit n Internet. Please Google for better info.
Solitary confinement need to be abolish
We don't put people in solitary confinement only because they're a danger to themselves, but also because they're a danger to other inmates who just want to do their time in peace. Give them a rotary phone so that they can safely interact with other inmates but not with the outside world
I don't think that helps much
I agree, the lady was right when she said people think inmates in solitary confinement deserve it because they do deserve it. Imagine being so dangerous that you can't be trusted around other inmates and guards, they had it coming and deserve to be in total isolation.
ADX is where the worst criminals go, the ones who cannot control their violence or enjoy it. I'm sorry but she did not convince me in the slightest. I don't think the people in ADX would give this women a ounce of compassion if the tables were turned, they don't respect human rights.
So surely then, someone has to be better in this situation? Or do we adopt the techniques and methods of the criminals?
Do you think spending years in solitary will enable them to learn empathy? I don't think so.
@@petehouse8380 The criminals did not lock soneone in a room, give them 3 meals, keep them warm, tend to their medical needs, give them visitors...seriously? They stabbed, slaughtered, tortured, raped and destroed lives. How can you even compare the two? There's another Ted talk on why you should feel sorry for pedophiles, might be right up your alley.
"Some people report that after years of not looking at anything further than 10 feet away, their eyesight has deteriorated so much that they can't focus on faraway objects any more."
Charles Bronson's prisoner artwork depicting paranoia through his drawings of CCTV illustrates isolation well
I can see this being one reason why some criminals choose to go down fighting the cops rather than go back to prison.
At least put windows on the cells. That scenary alone could heal some...things?
but what if a murder killed ur family. u would want the best for the killer?
Ashlyn Cohen id want that person still treated humanely regardless of their crimes
@@ashlyncohen3556 The best? No one said anything about the best. We're saying DONT TORTURE PEOPLE!
@@ashlyncohen3556 Yes, the family are never coming back, but at least we can make someone's life worth living and remove the threat to wider society. But I also think if someone kills a entire family they should be in a mental institution, not a prison.
@@kylev877 you say that until your the victim
I spent my first month and a half on suicide watch 24 hours a day in a cell with no matress first two nights , no TP at all , no shower , no brushing , just a small blurry window , and no Meds . This was right after doing a 51/50 at a hospital near my house working on my mental health . All I think about is how bad my brain is actually fucked up even mire because of that. I wasnt even suicidal at the time , now it clouds my mind most of the day
Actually, we outsource torture in other countries.
I was in solitary confinment for 6 weeks.
Difference is I knew at most I would only be there another two weeks.
Maximum is 8 weeks, unless secratary of state allows longer.
I've worked at a progressive state run male prison in the US for many years. I understand that solitary confinement is absolutely unhealthy. However, many of the incarcerated individuals in solitary confinement cannot function in the general population...when they are allowed in the general population they assault other incarcerated individuals and sometimes staff....they absolutely cannot function without hurting people around them. This is often why these individuals end up in solitary confinement (and prison for that matter). What do you do with someone who cannot function normally around other people? What is the solution?
I'd imagine it can change a person forever.
I agree we have an obligation to the inherent dignity of every human being. Remember that some of those human beings in prison also do, and many have violated that by rape, child abuse, torture, and murder.
Eye for an eye will make the world blind
@@vbgsantander such a flippant dismissal of the extreme suffering these very worst of society have inflicted upon others.
@@jamesengland7461 most victims of voilence and crimes are the criminals themselves. I dont think its right but why should the government have a free pass to torture the ppl more then looking their freedom? (Wich is the legal punishment)
What did they do to be put in solitary confinement?
I have a professional background in corrections. Some inmates actually "want" solitary to get out of bad situations with peers and some inmates to earn status in gangs.
There is a lot more to this topic than meets the eye. I general, I do agree with the speaker.
But, what do you recommend be done with certain inmates given the resources and constraints of handling "certain" inmates?
@@meteor2012able still a lot of questions to be answered
For an example, this speaker brought up Thomas Silverstein, who was convicted of armed robbery. Then, in prison he murdered three others, including a corrections officer. I don't see much connection between this level of violent behavior and ordinary citizens, so my sympathy meter barely registered during this talk.
The system I am aware of (not the us) you have to be a safety risk to yourself and each other’s. attempting to kill inmates and staff for example. Now it’s a tool that is being taken away.
adonaiinfidel killer ONLY four ppl: ?? one person murdered is too many
she is crying about the guy that has been living sooo long in solitary confinement but HE made his choices what about the guy he killed and his family that had to grow up without him??
👍 Spot on!
I agree you shouldn`t keep them there. If they killed people and can`t be reinserted in society they should be terminated.
exactly, 50 cents for a bullet, vs 50k a year for prison, it's a no brainer, get it? :) ;)
Nope.
Poor prisoners who can't see any grass or trees... What about the people they've murdered, they're not going to see any grass or trees ever again
What a bunch of garbage. How do you know these people were not disturbed before going into isolation? In fact I would say they were as they committed crimes.
And I don't care if a murderer lose his rights to human interaction, he removed that choice from an entire group of people, and he doesn't deserve human interaction.
"Justice" is a fundamental impossibility. At least that is how I see it.
If I killed a man for killing someone I liked, I would be harming those who loved said killer too by taking him from them as he did the one I liked. And thus be prone to retaliation. It would just turn into my death or an eternal cage I usurped from the beast.
If he goes to jail for life you might as well kill him then, as all he has to look forward to is a life of captivity and his loved ones will never (if rarely) see him again.
If he goes to jail for (X) years, then that is unfair to the victim. They are dead for eternity, while he waltzes free after only a portion of his time is taken.
True justice is something we want, but will never have. I say simply, "go with your gut". That is the closest thing to "True Justice" you will ever get in this world.
If you can handle being the monster you wish to slay, mantling its position, only to be hunted by those who would encage you or take the title... Go ahead.
If you want to leave the monster to rot in a cage forever... Go ahead.
If you want to forgive the monster who slayed the innocent... Go ahead.
We will never have a perfect answer, so seek your own, and let nobody's judgement effect you.
Long term solitary confinement is far worse than any physical torture. After a long enough time in there you'd probably even start physically torturing yourself due to mental breakdown...
I'm sorry if this is insensitive, but I find it hard to have compassion for prisoners in this type of situation. If you dont specify the crime committed, it makes you want to relate to them, but I cant imagine that anyone is in there for petty theft or illegal squatting or something benign. If you commit a truly awful crime- enough so that it is determined that this painful existence is assigned to someone, perhaps that is just justice for whatever they did.
I think it's important that someone is only placed in these conditions under the worst circumstances, but the point is that they are punished, isn't it? No one will be deterred from committing these awful crimes if the punishment is a slap on the wrist and then they get to move into a glorified old age home.
Again, I sympathise on a surface level with another human in pain, but the point of justice is to reprimand those who chose to do something truly despicable. Without knowing the crimes of the prisoners I these conditions makes this difficult to judge.
She also only mentioned that the one guy murdered a corrections officer. If that is all he did, the punishment seems far too harsh (as awful as murder is), but I seriously doubt that is all it took to put someone in there...
Happy to hear other people's thoughts on this topic!!
Lea Calitz How do you feel about innocent people being tortured let alone anyone . It does say a lot about you though. You’d be one of Hitlers yes men or happy to give the electric shock just because you were told you had to.
@@robynadams8925 I don't believe that torturing someone innocent is the same as punishing a monster. The US has one of the best legal systems in the world and while innocent people do slip through the cracks, overall I believe that there are safe guards against that happening. The justice system has a few purposes, one of those purposes is to deter people from committing crimes. The worse the crime- the worse the punishment. If you could get away with crimes without punishment, what would stop anyone from doing anything?
Again, without knowing the crimes committed by the people mentioned in this video, it is very difficult to understand exactly where the line currently is between who deserves the worst punishment vs who does not. But I will say that the victims and the families of the victims of monsters are the ones that really deserve a voice in this argument. They are the innocent ones and they deserve justice.
Also the Hitler comment is unnecessary and inaccurate. Just because I dont have compassion for monsters does not mean I condone the holocaust. It does show, however, that you don't know how to argue against what I was saying in my previous comment.
Lea Calitz Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Lea Calitz The US does torture innocent people. They sentence people to prison without trial. They send people to prison under false pretences. They torture people just because they can. They subject poor people to persecution that have no ability to defend themselves. They allow people in the highest office to get away with criminal and corrupt behaviour. Inhuman behaviour has happened in history and it will happen again if we do not adopt a more humane, ethical stance on punishment.
Thank you for your comment, Lea. It echoed my thoughts and i read this with understanding. It isn't a "do unto others" situation but rather the greater picture. Perhaps seeing someone who has lost their child or life partner (ultimately putting them into solitary confinement) to a monster and then standing up there and saying this would resonate with me more? I cannot imagine myself being sympathetic in that instance although i am now. Taking all things into account i see where your conflicting thoughts on this comes from too. I think victims on both side of the spectrum.... being the criminals and their victims would have a much greater understanding on this since they are the most affected though and this is why i have had quiet a mixed reaction? Just my 2 cents.
It is easy to imagine the hurt that a "monster" would do and then condemn that person to torture. What is difficult is to feel forgiveness and then insist upon humane punishment.
Thank you Laura! ” torture happens in the dark” !
This lecture seems to purposefully avoid addressing justice for victims, many of which whose lives are ruined forever mentally and/or physically, or taken altogether.
This punishment is not just for muders. Robbers or those prison guards does not like
Thats because the point of the lecture is to highlight the abject torture we perform on these humans that we are funding as taxpayers.
Plus, if it were actually intended to be used as a deterrent, our government and prison systems would not go through such lengths to cover it up. Instead, they do cover it up because they know it is wrong.
Jordan Epstein I understand; however, the presenter could’ve strengthened that point by addressing what seems to be the elephant in the room, judging by the amount of other comments here about victims.
Treat other people how you like to be treated. Torture, solitary should not be inflicted on anyone. Even your worst enemy. It’s direct reflection on each of us what we stand against and what we tolerate. Each of us should think of the one being persecuted as their own child, mother, father, loved one or one self . Maybe then we could feel an ounce of what is happening.
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@Rick James 'Rick James' wouldn't say that.
@@sshiva6635 how about you go watch endless footage of the evils the committ, take your time, put at least 1000 hours of knowledge under your belt before you run your mouth
I am more ashamed of people like you who defend evil and don't protect that which is good.
I admit to being conflicted about this. I believe guards and other prisoners have a right to be safe from some really dangerous individuals who maybe have been isolated. I believe it can be used as a punishment or deterrent for some. I don’t like the thought of the long term isolation. What can be done? She doesn’t say in her talk. For those that are a danger to guards and other prisoners what do we do?
Maybe make the solitary prisons bigger with a few plants or windows?
Why maximum/high level security prison and long period of time punishment/sentence exist? Why not just execute the person instead wasting money torturing them? That kind of prison is just evil, imo
The National Academy of Sciences reports that at least 4.1 percent of defendants sentenced to death in the United States are innocent.
@@abram730 thats sad to hear, but then the problem is not the death sentence itself, am I wrong? How did they know that they're innocent? "Innocent inspection" should be the first thing they do before putting someone's life in death/life situation including 'death mentally' from long period of time in prison..
@@v-alfred Looking into cases and investigating. Things like DNA evidence prove people's innocence. It is still difficult to get innocent people out of prison.
The system turns people into monsters then punishes them when they lash out!!!!!
The universe left alone creates reality
Does this mean if we are left alone in a cell we create our own reality in our heads?
Not sure why so many people assume that everyone in solitary is a violent criminal, not every inmate is guilty of some grand crime, some of them were even falsely imprisoned.
People view the issue as black and white when it’s a mix of greys, they’d rather believe that all prisoners are guilty and deserve it than admit that their justice system is broken and that those that are incarcerated are people too.
It’s easier to dismiss the suffering of others if you don’t view them as people, or view them as lesser than you, various atrocities were performed under this mindset.
Right, I think, your speak was very important, I hope everyone this matter realize it.Thank you..
It's because of people like her that rapists and killers get light sentences, the Epsteins of the world get off easier, and the Taliban get a helicopter ride back home.
Spending day after day alone in my house reminds me of solitary confinement
I am sorry for you must be lonely.
Well, all you have to do is get out...
Take a look around, there is no justice.
if you can't do the time, don't do the crime. prison is not the problem............
Let’s not forget why they are there. The focus on the victims and their families should be what the focus is on
Let's not forget, No one is sent to solitary confinement for Any crime in society. They are sent to prison for those crimes. It is the acts they commit while in prison that get them sent to solitary.
While in prison, the victims often are ...The kinder or older or just plain weaker prisoners, with no one to watch their backs they are targeted by the more violent and aggressive ones who will stay out of solitary because they are better at not getting caught doing what they do to other prisoners. Also guards prey on certain Prisoners whom they deem weak and easy targets (they have been known to rape and beat and torture them in many ways).
So some of those in solitary are there because they are victims ... and they only tried to defend themselves. So ... consider this sad fact ... Some people are sent to prison for crimes they Did Not commit (everyone in the system knows this happens) and some for non-violent crimes such as, Martha Stewart. Imagine someone like Martha Stewart (only poor and unknown) ... someone nice, non-violent ... It is often those types that become targets for the more violent prisoners. And if they just once try to defend themselves ... wham into solitary ... Besides ALL this ... I am with this lady and The Law of OUR Nation (and many other nations) saying we should not torture anyone ... and those who break that law are criminals. Torture is not allowed and this lady is telling us they are getting away with it.
I believe we do need to work more on preventing any and all crimes ... by paying closer attention to the factors that contribute to crime. Few people who are sent to prison ... sight, (see) prison as the reason they stopped committing crimes. Most of the more hard core criminals had problems in their youth that was never dealt with in an effective manner ...this is when they need our attention most. Torture has never worked to decrease victims and make any family safer. Those who torture and those of us who condone it or allow it or look the other way ... are causing (or allowing) pain for no other reason than to cause (or allow) horrendous pain to someone.
The Focus should be on ... Torture in All forms, to any person but especially to innocents and children, needs to, first be recognized, Then Stopped ... Today. The focus needs to be on How do we do this? Love and Peace To You and to All
Wow. Thank you for sharing this.
Video title is misleading. It’s a talk about torture on U.S. soil not about effects of solitary confinement. That’s only discussed very briefly
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Well, it’s all relative. There’s many kinds of torture-solitary confinement being one kind.
Listen to those folks laff now I wanna hear them scream
So how do you safely house these people and prevent them from continuing to kill others while still in custody? I didn’t hear any suggestions or solutions.
It's perfectly possible to keep a person largely away from others [Assuming they're that dangerous] without reaching a level of outright torture. Even by merely allowing them to be outside, have access to media [TV? Books? Newspapers?], talk to other people while still physically away from them...
It's really not that difficult.
Oh, I don't know. Maybe we rehabilitate them? Like how the prison system is meant to do.
Solitary confinement for short periods of time if you're too out of line (like a week or something), but overall focusing on re-instilling those core societal values.
And also just have guards monitoring social behaviour?
I'm not saying that prison movies are all that accurate about the actual prison situation, but they at least seem to provide no shortage of ways to help keep prisoners in line.
Also, you could try just thinking of anything yourself, instead of trusting other people to think for you. Making a change isn't really that difficult.
Jennifer Simone-I have no problem with putting them in solitary confinement but that also must have access to some type of notepad or reading materials to keep them form going insane.
To everyone saying terrorists and rapists and murderers deserve solitairy confinement...
Most convicted criminals to that degree get decades if not life sentences in jail.
Their entire life they are under threat by other inmates with their safety, fed garbage food with no proper nutrients, limited to zero medical care required, limited sunlight and outdoor time... EVERY aspect of what brought them happiness is either gone or deprived. THIS is their punishment. Not to mention the psychological effects of being inprisoned.
Solitary confinement is an added torture system that needs to be revoked!
Deprive someone of freedom, sure but torturing them for years on end and driving someone into insanity shouldn’t be such an easy option
Counterpoint: some, maybe even all, of these prisoners are far too dangerous to even be around other prisoners, because they may beat or kill them. At some point, your behavior makes your rights are taken away; maybe you should even be executed.
What's not specified is if this solitary confinement was continuous, or temporary punishment that kept being extended because of horrid behavior.
Solitary is clearly horrible. I absolutely support greatly reducing its use. Maybe, at minimum, there should be some sort of tribunal before any long term solitary confinement.
There was no debate about whether or not these inmates should be in prison. There’s no doubting that they should definitely be locked up. It’s mainly a matter of the nature of their containment. Should they be forced into a concrete cube, or a cell where it isn’t only them inside? For dangerous inmates, you could simply put them in single-mate cells instead of ISO. The fact of the matter is that it’s debatable whether or not ISO is overkill. We think that we as outsiders are above these people, when in reality, our own savagery puts us on the same level of lowness as them.
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If you take away a life that is not yours to take ... you deserve the solitary confinement .. period. There are kids as young as 3 working in mines, people starving, forests being cut off, pollution in the air and oceans, we kill millions of animals every day and hold them in cages and darkness for our own plates, but we defend a criminal that took a life away of a person that belonged in a family. I cant spare a single good caring thought for that person. Sorry.