[Lazamataz]

All things considered, solitary confinement is pretty benign.

This is one of many scholarly treatises that disproves your thesis.

There are many others.

[Nifster]

Oh goody a scholarly article......and of course these folks have no axe to grind. No doubt developed and written with the same care that Kinsey used on his studies

[Little Ray]

I don’t give a flying leap. Prison is supposed to be horrible.

I also don’t particularly trust psychiatrists. This is the origin of a significant portion of modern psychiatry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School

Tell ya what. Ask the inmates if they’d like to trade solitary confinement in the USA for General Population in, say, Mexico.