Complete 5 pages APA formatted article: The Safety of Mentally Ill Prisoners in Solitary Confinement. I, however, argue that it is safer to house the prisoners in solitary confinement than in the general population.

Arguments against solitary confinement of mentally ill patients are based on postulates that the treatment is bad for the population segment or that the population segment may coexist with other people without posing a significant threat. A review of data on the confinement of prisoners in California facilities suggests this. The review identifies non-application of the term solitary confinement though the treatment is identifiable in the facilities. Preferring not to use the term could indicate an intention to distance self from the practice because of identified moral or legal issues. The number of individuals who are placed in solitary confinement has also been reducing to suggest the declining significance of the treatment. While the treatment has been used for prisoners who offer threats to others, a reduction in the use of solitary confinement means that measures have been established to reduce the level of threat of violence. Consequently, a threat that mentally ill people could pose to other prisoners could be managed in the same way to avoid solitary isolation treatment on the patients (Rodriguez 1).

Putting mentally ill prisoners in solitary isolation may also worsen the patients’ conditions instead of solving the problem of the threat to other people. The isolation, as Kupers explains, increases the patients’ irrationality, and motivates them to exert their condition. The author argues that more mental illness cases occur in prisons than they do outside the prisons, even in psychiatric hospitals. Effects of the isolation have also been identified with an increased level of aggression among mentally ill individuals. A person, isolated in an enclosed cell may for example experience higher-level anxiety and physiological conditions that may induce hyperactive&nbsp.reactivity in their interactions.