Solitary Confinement Cells In Prisons

Solitary confinement has been in our country since 1790, becoming official in 1864. It is a method which has kept other inmates out of danger. Most inmates that go into solitary confinement cells, also known as "The Box", are inmates who are either mentally ill or gang members. Those cells were created with the idea of making inmates repent of their crimes and actions, and making them change. This has created great damage to inmates psychologically and mentally.

The solitary confinement on adults can cause serious pain and suffering and can violate international human rights and US constitutional law by being affected psychologically, going crazy and even commit suicide just to get out of that cell. One study has found that one-third of solitary

But if the crime was enough to be charged as an adult then they will go to a state prison. In those cases most juveniles are put in solitary confinement cells, isolating them from other inmates. Some say that it is a way to "protect" the juveniles from other adult inmates, staying for weeks or months, but that does not change the fact that solitary confinement can cause a serious damage

Around the ages of twelve to eighteen, kids become adolescents and they enter the puberty stage, where they go through a psychological and social development in which they start developing their identity, their social skills, self-esteem, their sexual orientation, every little detail that makes them the person they will become in the future. Adolescents need a high level of interactions with other youths and responsible adults. The forming of an adolescent's identity is a crucial time in their life. But sadly while in juvenile confinement, they have lack of social stimulation, denied access to family contact, devastating their growth and development, the worst effect on those who are already mentally