re: #188 Justanotherhuman

Well, I didn’t say it wasn’t used for punishment. It is—as I pointed out.

As a victim, I wouldn’t have given a flying fuck if my rapists had spent the rest of their lives in solitary.

As a victim, I would, if there was another method that was more rehabilitory.

After all, I’ve had to spend a lot of my own life in solitude. But I also enjoy my own company. People who can’t live with themselves usually don’t.

There is no comparison between someone choosing solitude outside of prison and solitary confinement.

All prisons are not alike. Depending on where they are, how they are run, some prisoners have TV, they have books, access to legal research, job training, education, mental health therapy—many, many opportunities to better themselves, and sometimes, it’s far easier for them to get than on the outside.

There are almost no prisons that match this rosy-eyed view. Almost all our prisons are overcrowded, dangerous, and with only the slightest attempts at rehabilitation, mostly focusing on punishment and containment.

You seem to feel that punishment is more important than rehabilitation. Is that correct?