The people in solitary confinement don’t deserve to be treated like a dog. That is exactly how they feel in solitary confinement. And if they were to crack, or “act out”, that in return can land them more time in prison. How do you think that makes the inmates feel? Like there is no way out.
Sykes argues that institutional aggression is a result of the environment, and that it is occurs within prison institutions because they experience deprivation on a daily basis. These include deprivation of liberty, where the prisoners are deprived of their freedom, deprivation of autonomy, where the prisoners are deprived of their independence by constantly being controlled by officers and loss of security, where many of the prisoners feel insecure of themselves. This is then supported by Sykes who found that the potential threat to personal security increased the anxiety levels in inmates, even if the majority of prisoners were not a threat to them. However, inmates may cope with these struggles in a number of ways, including some prisoners isolating themselves in their cells, whereas others choose to rebel by being violent towards staff. A study supporting the deprivation model was carried out by McCorkle et al who found that overcrowding, lack of privacy and lack of meaningful activities leads to peer violence which shows that the environment and place, could be a significant factor influencing aggression within prisoners.
This can cause a relapse of the behavior and ultimately, a return to prison. In conclusion I would say, mentally ill people should be placed in a suitable environment that can address their special needs and prison is not that place...Prisons are negative enough without further negativity being imparted on offenders by housing them in isolation for what really amounts to their mental illness. Under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR),
Prisons aren't made to be luxurious, but they're not made to be unsanitary either. A newspaper article about a California prison is a prime example of prisoner's rights being mistreated. San Quentin State Prison isn't just home for prisoners, but also home for birds, rodents, and cockroaches, along with standing pools of water and sewage. California has approximately 140,000 inmates, but these inamtes are packed into 33 prisons, meant for only 80,000 prisoners. As a result of these poor living conditions, those men and women commit suicide at double the national inmate average and recive unproper medical treatment.
I believe it’s unethical to not feed the prisoners just because they aren’t acting right or if they get into a fight with another prisoner or cellmate. Some prisoners are denied access to medical attention which is also unethical as this can result in deaths that would otherwise have been avoided. In especially the 3rd world countries the state of their prisons is deplorable. Prisoners are confined in these prisons that look like they are healthy but in all it isn’t and when the prisoners are finally released; they look very unhealthy and have more health problems than when they went in. While visiting my
Isolation is an extremely harsh and demoralising experience to live through. In the case of homeless people it is an experience they must live with every day of their lives. The concept of isolation can be seen in the text when Link states “Nobody knew I was there”. The use of first person pronouns makes the audience sympathise and personalise with the struggles of isolation Link experiences. The repetition of the word nobody in the statement “Nobody cares, see?
They assume that I should be just as able-bodied as them since they can’t “see” my disability and use oppressive words like lazy and ‘no good for nothing’ which only leads to further denigration of an already awful feeling. It also makes me feel even more isolated and alone because I internalize the oppression and my negative self-talk continues to tell me that I am the only one who truly understands. This form of oppression is what stopped me from reaching out to get help for my mental illness for many years. The stigma (negative stereotype) of mental illness which we are often led to believe through outlets like the media, caused me to fear what others may think about me and so I didn’t speak to anyone about my mental health until it was so unmanageable that I had to be hospitalized. Before that, I lived many years with the debilitating symptoms of depression and anxiety without any medical or therapeutic intervention.
Correctional facilities are cramped and of course make for a very dangerous environment. There is a prison code which is simply prison rules and then there are the inmate codes which are the inmate rules. Prisoners are reprimanded and charged accordingly when they break the prison rules. When an inmate breaks the rules of the inmate code they are often attacked by other inmates who cause serious injury and in some severe cases, death. Privacy is not a term that is recognized in prisons because it does not exist.
The differences are that they are put into isolation and do not share the same freedoms as we do in our communities. The prison lifestyle comes from many different attributes of stress; the dictionary defines stress as “a mentally or emotionally disruptive or disquieting influence.” In the study done by Sykes (1958) of a maximum-security prison lifestyle he identified five categories of stresses experienced by inmates. He stated that theses stresses were due to the deprivations that inmates regularly experience which include goods and services, liberty, heterosexual relationships, autonomy, and security. According to Sykes these were the core deprivations that defined the prison experience. The inmate’s safety is stressed due to the reality of violence in the institution.
Morgan Arsenault Psychological Impact Of Imprisonment The negative impacts of imprisonment are long-lasting and can lead to many problems in an ex-convict’s life. The two major times when a prisoner’s psychological state is changed is when they go through institutionalization and then when they are put back into normal society. A theory of isolation in prison is that it makes inmates go “crazy”. After studies this has been shown to be not true. Prison itself is not what alters a prisoner’s mental state, but the adjustment and amount of time spent in jail.