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    Solitary confinement causes prisoners to experience mental and physical harm. It violates the 8th amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment to keep inmates in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day in a small cell. Research shows that solitary confinement has been linked to mental illness in prisoners since the 1860s. Unless a prisoner is endangering others within the prison, they should serve their time in general population and not be subjected to solitary confinement.

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    Solitary confinement causes prisoners to experience mental and physical harm. It violates the 8th amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment to keep inmates in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day in a small cell. Research shows that solitary confinement has been linked to mental illness in prisoners since the 1860s. Unless a prisoner is endangering others within the prison, they should serve their time in general population and not be subjected to solitary confinement.

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    Solitary confinement causes prisoners to experience mental and physical harm. It violates the 8th amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment to keep inmates in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day in a small cell. Research shows that solitary confinement has been linked to mental illness in prisoners since the 1860s. Unless a prisoner is endangering others within the prison, they should serve their time in general population and not be subjected to solitary confinement.

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    SolitaryConfinement

    Doyoueverwonderwhypeoplecommitseriouscrimesthatputtheminprison?Scientists
    saythatbeinginsolitaryconfinementcancausebraindamage.Itmakestheprisonergo
    crazyandtheytrytophysicallyhurtthemselves.Solitaryconfinementisaviolationofthe8th
    amendmentbanagainstcruelandunusualpunishmentbecausealthoughinmatesdidthat
    seriouscrimethatdoesntmeanthattheinmatesshouldbeinaboxcellfortwentythree
    hours.Eventhoughinmatesshouldnthavecommittedthatcrimetheyshouldberequiredto
    servethetimeinregularprisonnotsolitaryconfinement.

    Prisonersshouldhaveprisontime
    butunlessyouretryingtokillsomeoneintheprisonitselfthenthatpersonshouldbein
    there.

    First,Solitaryconfinementisaviolationofthe8thamendmentbanagainstcrueland
    unusualpunishmentbecausealthoughinmatesdidthatseriouscrimethatdoesntmean
    thattheinmatesshouldbeinaboxcellfortwentythreehours.AccordingtoWikipedia:It
    statesthatSolitaryconfinement
    issometimesemployedasaformofpunishmentbeyond
    incarcerationforaprisonerandhasbeencitedasanadditionalmeasureofprotectionfor
    theinmate.Thisformofpunishmentisalsogivenforviolationsofprisonregulations.Itis
    alsousedasaformofprotectivecustodyandtopreventinthecaseofsuicide,restriction
    fromitemsthatcoulddisrupttheprisonershealth.ThisevidenceshowsthatSolitary

    Confinementcanreallycauseinmatestogothroughsomeseriousmentalchallenges.

    Next,Eventhoughinmatesshouldnthavecommittedthatcrimetheyshouldberequiredto
    servethetimeinregularprisonnotsolitaryconfinement.AccordingtoWikipedia:Itstates
    that
    Researchsurroundingpossiblepsychologicalandphysiologicaleffectsofsolitary
    confinementdatebacktothe1860s.PrisonrecordsfromtheDenmarkinstituteduring
    18701920indicatethatstaffnoticedinmateswereexhibitingsignsofmentalillnesses
    whileinisolation,revealingthatthispersistentproblemhasbeenaroundfordecades.This
    isreallyacruelwaytohandlethesesituations.Thisshowsthattheownersofprisons
    shouldredesigntheirprisonstomakesafer,butwithoutSolitaryconfinement.

    Then,Prisonersshouldhaveprisontimebutunlessyouretryingtokillsomeoneinthe
    prisonitselfthenthatpersonshouldbeinthere.Accordingtowikipedia:Itstatesthat
    The
    firstcommentbythe
    SupremeCourtoftheUnitedStates
    aboutsolitaryconfinementcan
    affectprisonersmentalstatuswasmadein1890.Initthecourtfoundthattheuseofsolitary
    confinementproducedreducedmentalandphysicalcapabilities.Theuseofsolitary
    confinementinprisonswasfirstintroducedinordertoregulateunrulyprisoners,andkeep
    themawayfromtherestoftheprisonsociety.

    Last,SolitaryConfinementtomeisaviolationofthe8thAmendment.Igoesagainstour
    nationsprideandrespect.AlotofprisonersinSolitaryConfinementgothroughmany

    mentaltrials.Whilebeinginthatninefootcellfortwentythreehourseveryday.Solitary
    confinementshouldbeshutdownandshouldbegonefortherestofthisEarthstime.

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