WHAT IS THE PERCENT OF KIDS IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT?

JOY DEMATAS

SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

OUT COMES OF SOLITARY CONFINMENT

• Depression
• Hallucination
• Anxiety
• Suicide
• Develop mental skills

DEPRESSION

• You become sad
• You have rage
• You become isolated/ lonely
• Your self esteem is low
• You have negative racing thoughts

HALLUCINATION

• You will experience, incoherent mumbling, and restless sleep
• You see unusual illusion's
• You may see colors in different shapes and forms
• You have auditorial, and tactile difficulties
• You may have some sort of paranoia

ANXIETY

• You over medicate yourself
• You think people are always talking about you
• You can't focus, with work, life relationships
• You don't want to see friends, family as often
• You may have nervous behavior

SUICIDE

• You think of jumping of a cliff
• You drive off a bridge
• You suffocate yourself
• You may want to drown your self
• You may self harm. This is extremely experienced with solitary confinement

DEVELOP MENTAL SKILLS

• Your brain is not functioning at the same level as normal child your age
• Your brain is not focused with positive thoughts
• You may have trauma to the brain
• You may have self- harm, which can lead to disability
• Lastly, all that is mentioned above leads to suicide, which was the slide before

UPDATES AND CHANGES

• New York civil liberties union
• No pregnant woman and 16-17 year olds in adult prison
• They are also working on the age group and length of solitary confinement

MY PERSON TAKE

• No more solitary confinement as punishment, not effective... Time to be determined (if at all)
• One commits an offense, however implement a way to coach them with a vision to success
• Discipline/ Working, teach tools to approach discipline and how working can be used to better success themselves
• Education with life skills, coaching mentoring, group work
• Health/wellness/ group fitness teach through exercise, coaching, meditation, educational seminars, leadership

THE BOX