What did you do to end up in solitary? You don't have to answer if you don't want to or you can lie. Who cares. Tell me you used the Lord's name in vain and i'll buy it.
Also, if you can read and presumably smoke in solitary (?), then 2 years should be doable, no? Plus, you get out smarter than when you got in, which is nice - unless it's 54 years later, of course. I mean if you know how to choose your books, 100 books is quite a lot on any given subject. Besides, when can the average person afford to make time to read 100 books carefully and reflect on them without end? Some do, i know i don't.
Happy to read that it "isn't that bad" from a humane point of view. Every one, even the worst of us, deserves dignity, even if said person wouldn't know how to spell the word or has denied it to everyone he encountered in his miserable life. That said, i'm pretty sure that for a specific undetermined portion of the prison population, it's actually worse than anything that can ever be depicted on screen and this is just as unacceptable as any other form of injustice. It is the state's mission to make sure every single one in his care survives and serves his sentence in accordance with the penal code and basic human rights.
Dostoevsky never said it as such, but he said something to the effect of: "The degree of civilization of a society can be derived from the way it treats its criminals", and i tend to agree with him.
At last, i liked John's words somewhere around the middle-end of the movie speaking of the guards and the inmates: "Make no mistake, we are all in prison."
Quite sad but true.
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People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefsī²
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