The Silent Treatment: Solitary Confinement's Unlikely Origins

Re:The Silent Treatment: Solitary Confinement's Unlikely Ori... by sneak on Friday October 27, 2023 @09:05PM (#38045975)

I think most decent people would be legitimate enemies of the state today if they had any idea just how sinister, profound, and widespread the injustices that it has institutionalized and normalized really are.

Most people have a terribly broken mental model and complete misunderstanding of the criminal justice system in America. It simply doesn’t touch most people, and they got all of their “knowledge” of it from mass media, which perpetuates the completely mythological concepts that people carry about it.

Then again, maybe not. The idea that prisoners get raped in prison is widely held and nobody seems to find this to be that much of a problem.

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Re:The Silent Treatment: Solitary Confinement's Unlikely Ori... by jacquesm on Friday October 27, 2023 @09:50PM (#38046318)

The degree to which this has been normalized is frightening. Take the Guantanamo bay scandal(s), you'd think that there would be some kind of massive blowback from that but it actually ended up being almost a speedbump in terms of the international response.

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Re:The Silent Treatment: Solitary Confinement's Unlikely Ori... by ravenstine on Saturday October 28, 2023 @09:07AM (#38049488)

People only cared about Guantanamo Bay because they were told to by the media. This isn't to say people shouldn't have cared, but that most people are assigned their beliefs until those beliefs are no longer useful.

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Re:The Silent Treatment: Solitary Confinement's Unlikely Ori... by matheusmoreira on Saturday October 28, 2023 @12:01AM (#38047020)

> The idea that prisoners get raped in prison is widely held and nobody seems to find this to be that much of a problem.

Worse. People seem to think it's part of the punishment. They want it to happen.

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