Solitary confinement requires an inmate to be restricted to one cell and has no contact or at least a very little contact, with other inmates. The critics call it inhumane, psychological torture that is hardly in line with rehabilitation. The reasons prisoners placed in isolation are many, it can be either to prevent them from fighting with another inmates or getting into fight with guards, like talking back to a guard or getting caught for doing something which they shouldn’t have been doing. Other times, prisoners are also thrown into the solitary confinement for not breaking any rules at all. Prisons have used solitary confinement as a tool to manage gangs, isolating people for simply talking to a suspected gang member. Prisons have also used solitary confinement as retribution for political activism.
How was it created?
The concept of solitary confinement dates back to the late 18th and early 19thcentury when the British Government to create panic among the great freedom fighters built a jail which served as a colonial prison and was also known as “Kaala Pani or Black Water Jail” as the Read More
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