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Originally Posted by dogzilla
This is basically solitary confinement, which is accepted as reasonable treatment of prisoners by US courts, and seems to satisfy the constitutional requirement to not be cruel and unusual punishment.
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It shouldn't satisfy it. It's cruel and unusual punishment. However, there is evidence of unconstitutional practices going on elsewhere as well.
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Why should the killer have any sort of diversion at all? Let him meditate on the seriousness of his crime for the rest of his life.
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Isolated in the nude and without day/night light cycles? Adequate meditation cannot easily be accomplished when one is disconnected from an outside reality and while under the effects of psychological torture.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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