imprisonment in British jails.
HILL writes of his experiences.
Having read several articles on solitary confinement and its effects I feel compelled to say something. Unlike most writ ings on the sebject this is not some such person; it is written period most means being alone. To prison KUND BC HINDICES isolation. They state that in oF prolonged solitary (rule 43) the prisoner needs to be isclated for the purpose of 'good order and discipline', They also say there are no after effects of long solitary because the prisoner who isolated will sooner or liller be returned to the main prison. prisoner, why is it used in the SCARRED The truth of the matter is that most people who. have isolation are mentally scarred for bie. Only the very serone willed suffer no after-effects, Tor IDe D or Solary is 10 break the subject mentally and bodily.
Because of the lack of food and proper exercise, breaking the body is the casiest. After they've done that they so to work on the mind.
Anxiety is one of the main weapons they use. Create B * stare of anxiety, and depres sion. worry and fear follow Minor worries become славteraled is the mind has balle lo occupy it. This induces intense bouts of depression.
HANGING At the end of last year one prisoner, Joey Day slashed his wrists and Inter hanging in an isolation cell. He had spent months solitary and had in front of SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 11 May 1978 page 10 THE Irish prisoners are in British prisons because British troops are on Irish soil. If that is not political what is? I have been told that I will spend the rest of my natural life in prison. I am 21 years old.
So wrote Paul Hill In a previous letter he bad written from prison. Hill is one of many Irish political prisoners currently serving long terms of Like many of these prisoners he has suffered long periods in solitary confinement. In this article PAUL him another long spell.
ROUTINE Almost all segregation units are white and very quiet, so the prisoner boses master sense time. Everything is done by peopic slop out and exercise.
Almost every spell outside your cell is confrontation with the screws, When you slop ou they space themselves behind you, beside you and in front.
The same al exercise time.
Thes never speak, not thar we'd want to converse with them, but by these actions they is hope to make the prisoner paranoid. I's enough to make It is impossible for me to go into as much detail as I would like and I don't chink it is possible to relate accurately what happens to a person's mind in solitary.
I'll just say that a battle is fought every day political prisoners who despite everything continue to resist.
And why shouldo't we? Alter all the screws try to break your mind for the sake of their pa packets, but we resist for thi sake of our sanity, They cannot isolate what they cannot see, Our spirits remain free.
HER MAJESTTE PRO found