Sitting alone in dark cell waiting for the next day; every time having fear to get beaten up by somebody who just has the mood to fight or thinks you have made a joke of him; being screamed by a warden most of the time; realizing that your life has chanced or not jet realized; having no friends, always being alone…
I would never survive with these conditions for one week.
There came up the question whether it is necessary to treat inmates this way, but I forgot that the prisoners who are treated like this are murderer, rapist and other criminals. On the one hand you can say they deserve to be treated in such a hard way in the hope they will chance them-selves or see their guilt. A murderer for example who is proud of what he has done, don’t see his guilt and would do a crime or murder every time again. These poeple deserves a punishment. Moreover he wouldn’t even obey when you‘ll say him politely that it would be great if he goes back into his cell.
But on the other hand you see some prisoners who regret their deeds. Of course they have to be punished for their faults. They are for sure in prison, but because of the psyche burden methods and the physic pain, the prisons reduce the chance of a normal life after the sentence. If an inmate tries to start a new life after the time in prison, but he just can act after orders like he learned in the imprisonment, he’ll never work as an independent worker.
It is hard to imagine being an inmate in prison becoming a normal citizen after you have lived so much pain and saw so many fears.