Solitary Confinement: Cruel & Inhuman (v.1 - 2009)

Produced by Claire Schoen and Jan Sturmann with Tony Heriza.
For more information about AFSC's campaign to stop torture in prison, visit: http://www.stopmax.org - On any given day, thousands of men and women are locked in solitary in U.S. prisons - alone for 23 hours a day. This video captures the visceral experience and long term impact of that isolation.

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[StolenFoodcart]

Torture isn't rehabilitation. It doesn't allow for the prisoners to move past mistakes and become a productive member of society again.

Solitary confinement is torture. It is designed to be torturous. It is not designed to rehabilitate, help or show them the right way to behave.

Go look up some information on false accusations and imprisonments and see how easily it can happen. Solitary confinement =/= rapists, child molesters, and murderers.

Inform yourself before you speak.

[Thubten Chokyi]

Prisons are no place for the mentally ill.

[Bo Hunter]

The cells shown at 5:10 are Alcatraz. Alcatraz closed in 1963. LIES and PROPAGANDA!!!

Additionally, if you have a cellie that is NOT solitary.

[Mark Goodwin]

China, USA, North Korea - all the same.

[john t]

Most of you jagoff's assume everyone incarcerated is a child molester or murderer. What of the hundreds exonerated by DNA or other unfortunates caught up in the system.

It could be you or yours...jagoff's.

[bgomusicco]

Its really easy to deal with this.. DON'T GET PUT IN PRISON DIPSHITS.

[Emir Benli]

your reasoning tells me that there are 200,000 people who have raped and then murdered a children in this country.

[GoldenTagachi]

inhuman cell? let me remind you damn hippies that the person that is in it is probably in jail for murder/rape(also pedos)/people with probably that like to injurd people..fucking hippies die

[Codee Gortat]

I have been in worse than solitary confinement, it's called observation. I spend only a few days in it without food or water. If that is not torture then let me do it to you and see what you say. I have a solid psyche and a healthy body they do it knowingly to feed of you like predators do to prey. Luckily I railed all the guards with psychological warfare. This is NO myth this IS torture.

[gamergamer15]

ya good idea guys lets let those murderers and rapists have a good time in jail and not be punished for hurting innocents :) most of those fucks deserve solitaire confinement. atleast you get to eat meals every day and live, when in other countries you have to fight for every damn thing, i swear prison is gonna turn into daycare for adults.

[cjmalone54]

dont do the crime if you cant handle the time. crybabys!!!!!