CRM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Intersectionality, Solitary Confinement
11 May 2016
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Segregation is a prison practice used for separating and isolating prisoners from the general inmate population. Segregation model was developed by the quakers of pennsylvania in the late eighteenth century. Solitary confinement (segregation) has become an important aspect of prisons being institutionalized as a habitual practice. It is now an unquestioned way of doing things. The correctional service of canada (csc) has only recently started to consider the impact of segregation on federally sentenced women. The primary objective for solitary confinement was to clearly emphasize and promote meditation and repentance for prisoners. Believed that if prisoners were left on there own they cold reflect on their crime and feel remorse. Disciplinary (punitive) segregation is used as a sanction (penalty) for prisoners found guilty of committing disciplinary offences. Fighting, gambling, being disrespectful, damage of property, etc. Segregation conditions in provincial prisons are more oppressive than in federal facilities.
