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    Solitary confinement is a violation of the 8th amendment ban against cruel and unusual punishment. Unless you're trying to kill someone in the prison itself then that person should be in there. Prisons should redesign their prisons to make safer, but without solitary confinement.

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    Solitary confinement is a violation of the 8th amendment ban against cruel and unusual punishment. Unless you're trying to kill someone in the prison itself then that person should be in there. Prisons should redesign their prisons to make safer, but without 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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