...You're kidding right?
He will not be in fear of the general population of prisoners harrassing him, making life hard for him...or worry about a shiv in the shower.
He can rest....have his food brought to him....and no doubt have access to books...who knows, maybe a TV...
..and with his mindset, rest on his laurels thinking himself a bigshot, a big name, a legend in his own mind.
Real hell on earth would be..... death and waiting for it...
...or general population where he had to scratch and fight for basic food and shelter and fend off rapists and killers.
I'm afraid you're right.
I simply don't believe that he wanted to be a martyr. He wanted to be important. Now, in his own mind, he is important, and he relax in his cell waiting for some kind of hostage exchange deal. Pray it never comes.
Did you look at the conditions under which people live in Florence?
If you consider that nice, you must have had a pretty tough life.
Solitary confinement is torture and that is what he is facing until he dies a very slow death.
Do you mean to tell me that you would prefer slow, lonely death of alone with almost zero human contact in a 12 by 8 concrete room to something that was realitve fast and painless?
To me this sentence was essentially death by slow torture. Worse than a needle by a long shot.