Now let’s look at some cons. being isolated for 23 hours a day in a small cell with absolutely 1 contact with any human being can be very mentally unhealthy. As it was mentioned in the article that “prison authorities acknowledged what they saw in isolated supermax prisons, to be damaging mental health effect of supermax incarceration” (pg. 684). Many people also look at supermax prison as inhumane form of punishment. Also often isolated prisoners lose their ability of being around people after being isolated for long period of time. As I mentioned one of my pros that isolated prisoners do reduce recidivism while in prison, however isolating prisons does not reduce recidivism after they are released from prison. As noted there is no definitive
