Solitary Confinement and Mental Illness

The jails and prison systems are the de facto mental health institution (Abramsky and Fellner, 2003).  There is a prison within the prison, that those with mental health conditions, are subjected to. That is the practice of "solitary confinement". Solitary confinement is defined as, isolation from personal interaction with others, in addition to being locked and confined in cells for 23 to 24 hours a day (Metzner and Fellner, 2010). Additionally, solitary confinement involves being,...