The first time I remember being put on time out was when I was five. I remember feeling scared, alone, and angry, all at the same time. My time outs were only short-lived, but they felt like a lifetime. Now can you imagine being in time out for a week, months or even years? This is a tactic used by the prison system to punish bad behavior. Isolation is locked in a cell where you can see outside, for 23 hours a day without any human interaction. How long can the human mind be left alone? Many people think this is a way to humanely punish deadly behavior, but science is proving otherwise. Human beings are not meant to be alone. We are social creatures. Can this form of punishment do more harm than good? Solitary confinement or solitary confinement can be given to many people, for many reasons. Anywhere from causing physical harm to another person, to being very destructive, but this is not always the case. Rapper Lil Wayne was placed in solitary confinement for hiding headphones and an MP3 player in his cell. Many people think that only violent and horrible people get that punishment, but that's not true, many of them are harmless things. An unnamed man I interviewed spent 3 years in a New York State prison. He spent 3 months in solitary confinement for something he didn't do. He was escorted by two correctional officers, when one of them made a flippant comment, he (the prisoner) said that "his lawyer would like to hear this remark", (male name unknown) and was slammed against the wall. Even today he is terribly scared. The next day he was told he would be taken to solitary confinement for hitting an officer. Something he didn't do. Not everyone in solitary confinement deserves to be there. This form of punishment, given to the center of the card and to the people who take a stand, will take back our rights as human beings. Work cited DR. Metzner, Jeffrey. Solitary Confinement and Mental Illness in U.S. Prisons: A Challenge to Medical Ethics 2010 http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/03/22/solitary-confinement-and-mental-illness-us-prisonsDr. Grassian, Stuart PSYCHIATRIC EFFECTS OF SOLO CONFINEMENT 1993 http://www.prisoncommission.org/statements/grassian_stuart_long.pdfGodoy, Maria. Questions and answers: isolation and human rights. 2011 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5586937Lenzer, Emily Confined Seclusion: How Effective is it? 2006 http://www.npr.org/about/press/060725.solitary.htmlSmith, Alexandra Torture At Home: Documentary on Solitary Confinement in US Prisons Misses the Mark 2010 http://www.alternet.org/rights/146497 /torture nement_in_u.s._prisons_misses_the_mark