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Solitary Confinement: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.
A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones – Nelson Mandela
“It was actually introduced by the Quakers”
-Psychiatrist, who clearly knows absolutely nothing about world history
Does he really think that nobody was locked up in isolation until the 1600’s?
Mirror please.
As long as the US uses incarceration not as a means of rehabilitation and instead as a draconian method of punishment; it’s not going to get better. Since society in America doesn’t treat convicted felons as human beings, not only will the average person not care what happens to convicts while they are incarcerated, but the lawmakers who only care about votes also will not care; and they often run on “tough on crime” platforms advocating for harsher punishments and more jails/prisons instead of actually addressing systemic issues that cause crime. The prison system is one of the many broken aspects of American society, and it’s not likely to get better.
Stumbled across this via googling for something else. People may enjoy reading it.
http://www.realcostofprisons.org/materials/Survivors_manual_2008-11-24.pdf
As someone who spent a portion of my early 20’s in solitary confinement for the super bad crime of having some mushrooms. I can confirm over 20 years later and it still hasn’t left me. The fuckin noise and light and loneliness and the constant shit water flowing under the door.
I think the bigger problem is that the US justice system is for punishment and revenge but the people involved pretend it’s for rehabilitation.
Focus needs to be on rehabilitation. The ‘losing of one’s rights’ is supposed to be the literal punishment.
The rest of it needs to focus on making a person want to be better and making prisons miserable by design is going to fail at that task.
I had such a strong sense of deja vu with that opening, and it turns out that that exact clip has been used before.
I mean, what if you have an inmate who sexually assaults other inmates?
This episode made me feel sick
Oliver didn’t even mention how DoJ uses solitary confinement during pretrial detention to torture defendants into plea bargaining (i.e. many of the Jan 6th defendants)