You go to rec[reation] for an hour, but you have to be up at six in the morning to catch the yard. Before they serve breakfast—you got to catch them before breakfast and then they take you after breakfast. So if you don’t know how to wake up, you can’t go outside. That’s supposed to be mandatory but they don’t ask you—you have to tell them. -Jacob L. (Kysel 38)
When prisoners in solitary confinement harm themselves the prison officials can lock up their hands and feet in chains so the juvenile cannot walk on their own two feet or use their hands for anything in front of them (Koppel). This does, once again, represent the law of retaliation, an eye for an eye.
With or without chains, confinement in a small space for any period of time will have negative effects on a growing body. Cases of stunted growth and weight loss are almost guaranteed from the inadequate nutrition and lack of exercise in the day (Kysel 39). |
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