Effects of Solitary Confinement Imagine you are stripped naked, searched, given little clothing and placed in a room smaller than the average bathroom. All you have to look at are the stark white walls that surround you, if you’re lucky. In other cases all that encompasses you is the rancid stench of feces, along with a variety of foods and liquids. What kind of games would your mind play on you? Paranoia, aggression, and …showed first 75 words of 378 total…

…showed last 75 words of 378 total…solitary confinement is a taste of hell. Experiencing symptoms such as paranoia, aggression, and depression can drive one insane. What concerns corrections experts is that some inmates are eventually released after going through such terror, which means many are going to be worse off than prior to the imprisonment (Tyre, 1998, par. 6). This poses the question: is solitary confinement really a cruel and unusual form of punishment, or is it needed for our growing world today?