It’s better for them to go crazy by themselves than go crazy on other inmates. I don’t know why I should care what they want since they didn’t care enough about what they want to stay out of prison. They’re not there to fulfill their wants.
You guys should read this:
““Twelve months of isolation almost obliterated the animals socially,” Harlow wrote. They became permanently withdrawn, and they lived as outcasts—regularly set upon, as if inviting abuse.”
“In 1992, fifty-seven prisoners of war, released after an average of six months in detention camps in the former Yugoslavia, were examined using EEG-like tests. The recordings revealed brain abnormalities months afterward; the most severe were found in prisoners who had endured either head trauma sufficient to render them unconscious or, yes, solitary confinement. Without sustained social interaction, the human brain may become as impaired as one that has incurred a traumatic injury.”
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/30/090330fa_fact_gawande
There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that solitary confinement is bad for people.