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What are the issues with solitary as used currently? What are some statistics regarding solitary? What is your position on the practice and why? (three paragraphs, five sentences minimum)
1- ISSUES REGARDING SOLITARY-
1-The issues regarding solitary is concerned with solitary confinement -
1- The prisons have used solitary confinement as a tool to manage gangs, isolating people for simply talking to a suspected gang member.
2- Solitary Confinement is often used as population management tool, in lieu of lack of resources at facilities and Cronic Overcrowding.
3- Recent Statistics suggest that administrative segregation may also be used outside of its legally permitted uses.
4- In the early years of solitary confinement researches noted increased suicide and mental illness among prisoners.
5- Studies have also found that solitary confinement harms parts of brain.
2- STATISTICS REGARDING SOLITARY-
1- Solitary Confinement is the practice of placing a prisoner in a confied close cell for a minimum of 22 hours per day .
2- Convicts in such a cell are virtually free of any human contract and this can sometimes last for decades.
3- You won't hear prisons use this kind of term any more because of the negative connotations that are associated with it .
4- Placing a prisoner into solitary confinement essentially removes them from the global society that is developing.
5- No one is excusing the crime they committed to put themselves into the prison system in the first place, but treating humans like a caged animal may not necessarily the best way to go .
3- POSITION REGARDING SOLITARY-
1- Statistical information is invaluable in determining, what combination of goods and services to produce.
2- In which resources to allocate in producing them to which population to offer them.
3- Health care Statistics are critical to allocative and production efficiency.
4- Statistics proving thay apples are noting like oranges may be measuring the wrong things.
5- Your job in using statistics as evidence, is to determine what exactly is being measured.