Research Question:
Should prisoners be isolated in solitary confinement units?
Laughlin, Meg. "Does Separation Equal Suffering?"
Meg Laughlin is a writer for the St. Petersburg Times. She writes mainly about criminal cases and the treatment of prisoners. Most of her articles are about the problems prisoners face in being locked up. A lot of her articles also involve racial issues. This article is written for the public to inform of the effects of solitary confinement. This article is similar to another that I have cited. Both articles are stories about people who have had the experience high security solitary confinement with minimal privileges. Both of the men would cut themselves with whatever they could find just to have something to do. Both also attempted suicide multiple times and one of the men succeeded. Both articles state that solitary confinement causes severe mental problems, however only one of the articles states what the prisoner did to land in solitary confinement. This work challenges the fact that prisoners are kept in solitary confinement because it states what the prisoner did, and the results of their actions.
Belluck, Pam. “Mentally Ill Inmates at Risk in Isolation, Lawsuit Says.” New York Times 9 Mar 2007. SIRS Researcher. SIRS Knowledge Source. Edina High School 8 Dec 2008 http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SMN0307H-0-9017&artno=0000283445&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=&title=Mentally%20Ill%20Inmates%20at%20Risk%20in%20Isolation%2C%20Lawsuit%20Says&res=Y&ren=Y&gov=Y&lnk=N&ic=N.
Pam Belluck is a writer for the New York Times. She doesn’t seem to focus on one main topic, she writes about a variety of them. This article is also intended to raise awareness about the mental issues solitary confinement causes, written for the entire public to read. This article relates to “Does Separation Equal Suffering?” In this article the man succeeds in killing himself after many attempts. The boy in the first tried to kill himself many times but never did. This article focuses more on the mental issues that come up for a person living in solitary confinement. This article shows many of the negative affects of solitary confinement. One man says ''How many more men will have to die?'' and ''how many more men will be driven to harm themselves before this problem is fixed?'' This author is biased against solitary confinement and is trying to convince the public to agree with her.
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