What is the mentality of prison inmates when they are in solitary confinement?

How is your mentality? There must be ten thousand dissatisfactions in my heart...

However, criminals who have been in solitary confinement all understand one truth:

In prison, even if you are a lion, you are very obedient. Accept the surrender, don't pretend to be a big-tailed wolf in here, or else you'll be waiting in the solitary room!

The confinement cells I have seen are about 5-6 square meters. There is only a cement bed dozens of centimeters high, a squatting pit, and nothing else. After the criminal is locked in, the lights are on 24 hours a day. The police use surveillance cameras in the duty room to keep an eye on you 24 hours a day.

Here, you don’t have to work or read the news or newspapers. You can just waste time and think about life without doing anything. The most you can do is stand up and walk around in a few square meters of space.

When it’s time to eat, someone will bring you food outside. The food is not much, so you won’t be hungry. After eating, the bowls and chopsticks will be taken away.

Someone will give you a bed roll when you sleep, and take it away as soon as you wake up during the day. No one will talk to you or chatter with you from the moment you enter, so you are left alone to reflect.

In addition, no matter whether it is a scorching heat of 40 degrees outside or a freezing cold of more than ten degrees below zero, you are sitting alone inside...

At this time, you will die even if you want to No, because there are no sharp or rope-like objects inside. It would be difficult to hit the wall to death, because the police will keep an eye on you at any time...

In this kind of environment, the average person can stay for a week Everyone will collapse. If your temper is big enough, OK, I will give you another week... I really want to make you cry...

Compared with other An environment where criminals eat, train, and work together. The latter should not be too happy.

Of course, most of the criminals who are put in the solitary room are those who fight, disobey discipline, and contradict the police. If you commit a crime and go to prison, you will be reformed. You still want to use the ability to control things outside. If you use it in the prison, you will die miserably...

In Liuzhou back then, because I had just entered, I was not familiar with the place, and I had just come back to eat after beating stones. There was a wild boy who might have been in there for a long time. Bar. He always had a hard time with me, and he even reported me for smoking cigarettes when I was stone-pounding. I thought it was not an option to continue like this. Isn’t it enough to suffer all day long? The more you think about it, the angrier you get, so take revenge on him and teach him a lesson? I walked up behind him with a packed lunch box and hit him hard. Because it was too sudden, I beat him to the head with blood. The prison guard immediately came over with an electric baton and knocked me unconscious. When I woke up, I found myself lying on the wet ground with a foul smell. Only the small iron door had some light. The small room, including the toilet, was less than two meters long and wide, and just over one meter high. I couldn't stand straight. There was only one person inside. Xiao Muden has nothing. Moreover, it was hot in summer, but the room was low and humid, so it was cooler. Even if I was sitting on the wooden board, there was no place to sleep. I used my hands to swat the flies and mosquitoes that had been with me for half a month all day long to relieve my anger. Living there feels like a year, but luckily it’s not winter, otherwise I don’t know how I would have died here. However, I developed a body that was vulnerable to mosquitoes in the solitary room, because when I came out, my brothers said that I was not bitten by mosquitoes even if I slept without a mosquito net, but they were still bitten by mosquito nets. Moreover, you don’t have to work in the solitary room. When meal time comes, someone brings food and water, but you can’t come out. There is nothing you can do if you don’t eat in the smelly room. It’s only been half a month. When you leave the solitary room, you will be old. Twenty years old and smelly.

Let me tell you how I felt about being in solitary confinement. I was only seventeen years old at the time, and I was young and frivolous. In the second half of 1993, I was imprisoned for 15 days for fighting during the reform. There was cement in the solitary confinement room. There is a plank bed, a faucet, and a squatting pit. The room is about 2 meters wide and 3 meters long. The first door and the second door are 1.2 meters apart. The sunlight comes in a little from the first window. You can only see the prison during the afternoon. Friends, I still have to climb up the window to see outside. Help me bring some snacks, cigarettes, instant noodles, and candles with sticks. There must be one person holding up another person to climb up the window and use sticks to deliver things. You can imagine how high the windows are.

Melt candles on cotton and use it as firewood to cook instant noodles. If you have nothing to do, look at magazines. They are all collected by fellow inmates. Half a month later, when I walked out of the solitary room, I felt top-heavy and felt that the ground was right under my eyes. I raised my foot suddenly and stepped on it hard. I felt very dizzy. I walked back to the squadron with one foot high and one foot low. This is the legendary discovery. I felt dizzy, but everything else was fine. I just felt dizzy and uncomfortable when I first came out to see the sun. Not long after, I was transferred to the province for rehabilitation. The correctional officer said that you are a big fish and our pond is a bit small, so we can just put you in the reservoir. I was transferred from a place with more than 600 people to a place with 4,000 people. It was really Gao Sheng, it’s not convenient for you to visit me at home [cover your face][cover your face]

I will answer based on my actual experience. While I was serving my sentence in Guangyuan Prison, the General Secretary held me in solitary confinement four times in a very small space. The stride is only two steps long and 1 meter wide...you can eat, drink, and relieve yourself inside. Put your own feces and urine in a small bucket. It was poured once a day, and every meal was a steamed bun. It was basically free of oil and salt. When you were thirsty, you could ask the police to give you a glass of water. You stayed in that small space for several months without washing your face, taking a shower, or brushing your teeth! The deepest feeling is one word (quiet... quiet is scary. You can't hear any outside sounds. That feeling... is like a person who is alive but is put into a coffin and buried deep underground. It is a living thing. Dead man! That kind of loneliness and loneliness will make your thoughts go from childhood to adulthood, and from the present to the future...over and over again...sometimes a little ant inside will talk to himself, incoherently! But a little spider will become your friend, a lonely playmate, especially in winter, with cold cement floors and cement walls. You are not humiliated during the day. You are wearing a very thin chemical fiber confinement uniform, and your bare feet are frozen. Crack... Sometimes I take a nap... Blood flows out along the crack and sticks to the cold concrete floor. Only I can feel the heart-breaking pain. I keep walking around when I am cold, but because my body does not absorb the normal intake of The energy required was exhausted after a few moves. It was cold and unable to move... Every day, a line was drawn on the wall to indicate the number of days of confinement. The confinement usually lasted from 3 to 15 days. If there were major violations, it would be extended indefinitely... It was dark. , one day at a time... I was imprisoned for up to 3 months... 4 times! It's unforgettable...

Confinement is very costly, let me share it with you. My friend’s story.

A friend of mine spent three years in prison. He told me about his experience in confinement.

He said that there was no way around it. . Because the prison is a big mess, everyone is depressed, so if this happens for a long time, people will be in a bad mood and their temper will be bad.

He felt that the food was divided at one time. The group leader had a problem with him. There were several pieces of meat in his bowl, but he only had two pieces in his bowl. So he felt uncomfortable and asked the group leader who knew what was going on. , he said: Dog? You can eat as much as you want. So he stood up, threw the bowl over, and was about to fuck him, but before he could go over, he was pulled away by other classmates. He was put in solitary confinement, and a lot of assessment points were deducted, and he was not allowed to shop or make phone calls.

I asked him how he felt. The environment was dark, the space was small, and there was a pungent smell. He said that the biggest feeling was that he felt wronged and why he had come to this point. Then he felt that impulsiveness was the devil. He got into fights because of impulsiveness in the past. I still don't know how to control my emotions, and I feel very regretful. Then I feel that I am ridiculous for fighting with others for two pieces of meat. Of course, I am also afraid of what kind of punishment I will receive and how it will affect the reduction of my sentence. , What will his family think of him if he doesn't call back? In short, it is very contradictory. So, he came to the conclusion: take a step back and endure the calm for a while. > It is difficult to be a good person without being in jail.

In the place of labor, there is a strict hierarchy, where the weak and the strong prey on each other. If you are an insole, there will be ten thousand feet stepping on you. If you are a laurel, everyone will hold it. The only rule! When I walked in, my eyes were completely dark. I always thought of not causing trouble and living my life honestly, but this idea was too naive. The resources in that kind of place were so scarce. Someone racked their brains to plot every box of cigarettes and a pack of instant noodles. At the beginning, I met When things were settled, I pretended to be stupid and suffered a loss, but later I realized that something was wrong. I found a reasonable excuse and slapped the team leader on a small square stool and gave him more than ten stitches. With gauze wrapped around his head, the solitary room was about two meters long and a little over one meter wide, and three meters high. A small window about one foot above the ground was about two and a half meters above the ground. The left and right hands are handcuffed with two handcuffs on the two floor rings respectively. When sitting on the ground, both hands can hold their mouths. There is a plastic basin in front of the feet for convenience. Two meals a day include half a cup and a bowl of cold water. At noon, you can empty the urinal yourself. It was such a severe winter that I almost froze to death on the first night. The next day, a team leader from the strict management team chatted through the crack in the door and found out it was us. We had heard of each other but had never interacted with each other before. At noon, a skin patient was brought in. A woolen coat, two military coats, a can of tea and a box of cigarettes every day, and the big problem of mustard instant noodles was solved. Then I just killed the boredom and didn’t have time. I fell asleep and sang when I woke up. It felt very useful at the time and I didn’t have to work. A series of complicated events such as morning exercises, I really felt like I was on vacation. Half a month later, it was here. After the captain took me back, my life completely changed. I was serving more than 10,000 sentences smoothly. It has been nearly fifteen years since I was released. Oh, yes, I also lived in a detention center for three months in the meantime. In short, there are things in my life that I cannot escape. I am lucky to have experienced it earlier!

When prison inmates are in solitary confinement, they are left with only their animal instincts, hoping to have enough to eat and drink enough water to end the punishment of confinement as soon as possible and return to normal prison rehabilitation life.

Prisons and detention centers are two different state institutions. Prisons are managed by the Bureau of Prisons and the Bureau of Justice. Detention centers are under the unified management of the public security department. Persons who have violated criminal laws and have not yet been sentenced by a court are temporarily detained in a detention center, where they will receive more severe punishment if they violate prison rules.

Because the detention center is originally a sealed and small space, there is no such thing as confinement, but the punishment imposed will be better than that of prison. Here I will focus on the deterrent effect of prison confinement on inmates and their psychological activities.

In the 16th month since I arrived at the Shayang Labor Camp in Hubei Province, all my energy has been blunted, and I have transformed from a person who resisted reform to an active one. I have been criticized many times at the prison’s commendation meetings. Commendation.

Several articles I wrote about my reform experience and future reform directions were published many times in the prison’s internal newspapers. And not only did I get the qualification for a reduced sentence, but my "level" was also improved.

I was promoted from a team leader in charge of 32 prisoners to an instructor of the "training team", responsible for supervising the special rehabilitation and punishment of these prisoners in the training team. "Training team" is another name for "confinement", which is different from ordinary confinement.

I have always known about the training team, and I have come into contact with many prisoners who have returned from the training team. When I asked them what that place was like, they just shook their heads and told me that it was not a place where people could stay for a long time. No one wanted to go there for a second time. Whatever you want to know, you should experience it yourself.

On the second day after I was promoted to instructor, I took my packed luggage and handcuffed myself into the police car of the Justice Bureau to the training team. This is a separate venue in a large prison area, as big as two basketball courts.

Surrounded by a row of bungalows with exposed red bricks, each room has many small windows, which are more like small square holes than windows. These square holes are smaller than an adult's head. , there are two thumb-thick threaded steel bars in the middle of the hole.

This place is the residence of the members of the training team, and as an instructor, I also live here like them. At this time, I regretted it a little and felt that I had been fooled. The accompanying prison guard took me to my apartment, which was a bungalow at the far end.

There were two prisoners sitting on a bunk bed to rest. When they saw us coming in, they immediately stood up and saluted the accompanying prison guards, and shouted "Hello, officer" loudly. The other two are also instructors of the training team. After getting to know each other, they introduced me to the situation here and the tasks we need to complete every day.

After everything was arranged, it was already lunch time, and the canteen pushed the dining cart over. We called over the 28 members of the training team who were standing on the playground and prepared to start preparing meals.

These people are about 20 to 50 years old. Judging from their appearance, they are not easy to mess with in society. Especially some of them have armor-style tattoos on their bodies and crisscrossed stab wounds. Extend from the chin to the arms.

Although they were wearing short-sleeved prison uniforms, they were still clearly visible. If you don't look at their eyes, no one would dare to mess with such a group of people in society.

"Get ready, let's eat." They quickly picked up the plastic bowls placed under the eaves. Some bowls even had fallen mud and dust inside. There are only 14 meals for 28 people, and each meal is only 2 taels, which is not enough for even a child.

After each person made a meal or two and a ladle of salt water, he stood on the playground and started eating. The sun made each of them soaked, but they still had to stand until everyone had finished eating before they could wash the dishes together.

The three of us instructors have just now taken out the meals prepared for us in the kitchen and started to eat. All meat and vegetables are fried in oil. The 28 pairs of eyes across from us are staring at what we are eating. Some people even drooled over the food.

On the first day, I think I should say a few words to them now, otherwise it will be really difficult to manage them in the future. "What are you looking at? Didn't you just eat it? This is just normal prisoner food. You don't know why you are being treated like this and why you are in this place. You should know better than me."

Speaking of this, I lit up a cigarette and started smoking in their envious eyes. I shouted to them to rest in place for five minutes and then start training to run and walk. Taking this opportunity, two of them bent down and came towards me. When they were still three meters away from me, I told them to stop and not come any closer.

They said that they had no other intention, they just asked me if I could give them the butt of my cigarette to smoke, which would make them feel better, but they couldn’t bear it anymore. I looked at the cigarette butt in my hand, threw it on the ground and crushed it with my feet. Don't negotiate terms, just return to the queue and start training.

They turned back as they walked and looked at me with vicious eyes, as if I was their life-and-death enemy.

In fact, I had to do this. I was assigned a task before coming here. The purpose is to stimulate these prisoners who disobey prison management. They will not let you get what you like. If you have a strong addiction to cigarettes, you can only watch but not smoke. If you like to fight and make trouble, then you will be in a state of hunger every day, strengthen physical training, and consume your energy. These are the purposes and tasks of the training team.

After half an hour of running back and forth on the playground under the scorching sun, I found through observation that several prisoners were indeed exhausted. I asked them to stop and drink water, just ordinary cold water. Let them drink it as if it were fine wine.

I lit a cigarette again. At this time, there were not many people looking at me smoking. They just wanted to drink a few more bowls of water, and they all stared at the stainless steel bucket in front of them. However, water is also limited to a limited time. Okay, let’s continue training on the playground, and now start practicing walking.

I continued training like this until the meal time in the afternoon. The food was the same as lunch, or in other words, the two meals every day were the same. Members of the training team are not provided with breakfast.

After eating at six o'clock in the afternoon, they can sit for half an hour. They sit on the ground in the playground to watch the news broadcast. They must hold their heads high and look straight ahead. There is no training in the evening. After the news broadcast, all the members stood in a row under the eaves until 12 o'clock in the evening to take a shower and rest.

The advantage of standing under the eaves is that you can lean against the wall to save some energy. After all, you have been training all day, so this actually gives you an opportunity to be lazy. While they were washing up, I called over alone the two buddies who asked me for cigarette butts at noon.

I gave each of them a cigarette, and they were stunned. I said, smoke it quickly, others saw it. They quickly squatted down and sucked hard with their backs to the monitor. They couldn't stand up for a long time. I knew they were dizzy. You asked me for cigarettes in front of so many people, didn't you mean to harm me?

Maybe I will join your team. How long have you been here? Is it fun to do this every day? I don’t smoke every day and I don’t have enough to eat. Don't you want to leave this training team early?

I think, who wants to stay here? Isn’t this because he was sent here because of a fight in the prison area? We thought that it was just a matter of confinement, staying in a dark room, and there was no need to go out to do anything. Who knew the situation would be like this? Although there is no need to work, every day is like a year.

We just hope to eat enough and drink enough water every day. We never dare to think about violating the regulations. We just want to leave here as soon as possible and live a normal prison reform life. Fortunately, we still have You can return to the team in one week.

At this point, they stamped out the half-smoked cigarette butts and put them in their pockets, hoping to save them for next time. "Take it out and throw it away." I looked at them and said angrily. What should I do if I find out when I searched the prison cell? Do you want to implicate me?

They reluctantly handed over half of the cigarette butts and asked them to quickly follow the team back to the solitary room to rest and recuperate to continue accepting tomorrow's punishment.

You are serving time in prison because you have caused harm to others and society. It is natural to accept reform through labor and ideological reform. The country gives you a chance to make a new life in prison. Not only do you not appreciate it, you also resist reform. If you disrupt the order of prison reform, the state machinery will never tolerate you.

A dragon must be coiled up, and a tiger must lie down. No matter how powerful or arrogant you are outside, you have no choice but to keep your head down here unless you never want to come out.

The author has been on duty in prisons for many years and would like to briefly introduce this knowledge.

The first question is, what is the confinement room like?

The confinement room is a building with a reinforced concrete structure. The interior is two meters square, with an iron door, a twenty centimeter square window, a toilet hole, running water and lighting. The walls are usually covered with rubber material to prevent criminals from committing suicide.

The second question is, who has the opportunity to enter the solitary room.

Generally speaking, those who can enter the solitary room are criminals who have seriously violated discipline in prison. Common ones include fighting, breaking away from the alliance, disobeying management, plotting to escape, destroying production tools and equipment, etc.

The third question is, how is life in the confinement room?

Life in the solitary confinement room is quite good. There is no need to work, three meals a day are provided, and there is a dedicated person on duty. The standard of eating should be lower, which is effective in preventing the three highs. Wotou, pickles and boiled water. For about half an hour every day, you can go out from the iron gate to the ventilation area to enjoy the sunshine.

The fourth question is the legal procedure for confinement.

To confine criminals who violate disciplines, an application must be submitted by the police on duty and signed and approved by the prison district, prison district, functional department and prison leader in charge. The general period is about one week, and the longest is no more than one month.

The fifth question is the deterrent effect of confinement.

The deterrent effect of confinement is still great. There is no communication with anyone for 24 hours, the scope of activities is strictly restricted, and life is good. Most of the violators will give up in three days.

The sixth question is about other impacts of confinement.

Being placed in solitary confinement means that the criminal has seriously violated discipline. Needless to say, points will be deducted. Its direct impact is that the sentence reduction will be affected. If it has been declared, it may be withdrawn.

In addition, the evaluation and registration of prisoners in solitary confinement will be reduced. Correspondingly, the amount of consumption will be limited, and meetings and family calls will also be affected.

The seventh question is the mentality of the incarcerated. Of course, when you first go in, you will be dissatisfied and don't care. After three or two days, you will give in and ask the police to talk to you. You will actively admit your mistakes, check and repent, and try to get out as early as possible.

There is a light in the solitary room! The small one only has one person, and the large one has two people. The small one is only three square meters, with a concrete platform to sleep on, a bedpan to urinate in, and a toilet once a day (to empty the toilet). Two meals a day, a mouthful of porridge (actually just rice soup). , a corn steamed bun (two ounces of grain), served at six in the morning, dinner around five in the afternoon, still a mouthful of rice soup, a steamed bun, confinement usually for fifteen days (seven days, rarely ten days), there are also cases of confinement review (I was detained After being locked up for five months and four days), I dared not open my eyes when I opened the door. I covered my eyes with my hands for a while, otherwise the sun would dazzle my eyes. There was no light in the confinement room (no electricity, for fear of committing suicide), and I was lonely, alone, and hungry. , the heat can kill you in summer, and the cold can kill you in winter. Alas, you are not a human being, and fleas are all over your body.

When I was in confinement, my mentality was to get out early and never come back again.

Solitary confinement is one of the most severe penalties a prison can impose on criminals who resist reform and seriously violate prison rules, second only to increased sentences. No matter how violent and arrogant the criminal is, he will be dealt with in a few days and he will be docile and submissive. It also serves to deter other prisoners.

The time of confinement is generally not too long, no more than half a month. The execution must be approved by reporting to the prison director for the signature of the sub-district. Moreover, during the period of confinement, they must always wear instruments, handcuffs and leg shackles. The forbidden rooms are usually underground and the space is very small, only two or three square meters. A tall person can't straighten his waist inside. There was a bed and toilet inside, and it was smelly and dirty. And there is no sunlight. The winter is bitingly cold, and the summer is full of mosquitoes.

During the confinement period, all visits and shopping stopped. You have to get up at five or six in the morning, stand up and start reciting the prison rules, and you are not allowed to move around until nine in the evening. They were only given two meals during the stay, both of which were only half of what normal prisoners would eat. There is a chance to vent the toilet every day when emptying it. Sometimes the police forget to do so. Not only does the venting fail, but the toilet also smells bad.

In addition to confinement, the commutation of the sentence that year was also in vain. All previous assessments were invalid and had to start again. This penalty hits criminals hardest.

Therefore, any prisoner who is put in a solitary room will regret it very much. After such severe punishment, he will never violate prison rules again and will be reformed in a down-to-earth manner. After all, every criminal wants a reduced sentence and longs for freedom.