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Isolating a prisoner and putting them in solitary are two entirely different things. In solitary, you are given absolutely no stimulation. Often not even a bed to sleep on. The lights never turn off. Prisoners scream through vents at each other just to hear another human voice. It's absolutely torture.
I've been in a lot of prison segregation units around the US and that's not what I've seen. They have beds and they can talk to people in adjacent cells. They have beds unless they're disassembling them to hurt themselves or others. The only times I've seen people truly isolated, it's because they're the ones screaming and aggravating the other inmates on the unit, and sometimes throwing shit and piss at them. They absolutely have lights turned off unless they're on suicide watch and can't be left in the dark without harming themselves.
I'm not defending it, I just don't know what the solution is. Whenever I hear people proposing eliminating solitary confinement, I'm like "ok what then?". The ones who are seriously mentally ill should be in hospitals, but they'd be segregated there too. The ones who aren't, I have no idea.
Edit: I should add, I haven't seen people put in those conditions just for punishment, but that probably wouldn't be a part of a regular tour. If that happens, it definitely needs to stop.
Yeah it's not part of the tour. It's what's reported by prisoners who have been in solitary.
Holy shit you didn't literally see them abusing prisoners on a tour, I guess they don't abuse prisoners, case closed lol
I've toured prisons in many states and spent years in my state's prisons genius. I've sat in disciplinary hearings in other states too, so I've seen the reasons why people were sent to seg. How much time have you spent in prisons?