Solitary Confinement Vs Solitary Punishment

In 2012, the state of Connecticut repealed the death penalty. Everybody on CT’s death row was instead given multiple counts of life in prison. Opinions seem to be split down the middle for people in favor of or against the death penalty. However, to keep a single person in solitary confinement is extremely costly. People want a punishment for the felons that makes them feel the pain of their victims, and solitary confinement does that. Instead of the fast but usually painful death of the death penalty, solitary confinement is a far worse punishment. Along with that, if there is no death penalty, there will be no mistake of executing innocent people.
Both sides of this argument argue the cost of each. However, facts show that solitary confinement is far more costly.
B: Both methods are costly in their own rights. With the amount of people in solitary confinement, the amount of money being spent on the prisoners is absurd. It costs $75,000 a person per year in solitary confinement. If a person is in solitary the rest of their lives, about 55 years, that’s about $4 million dollars per person. There were 11 people on death row when CT abolished the death penalty. In total that is $44 million dollars going to each felon instead of other areas. For example, there are …show more content…
The person has to suffer waking up each day and being eternally reminded of the felony they committed. For example, the two felons Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky. Together they committed heinous crimes against the Petit family in the summer of 2007. They were both originally sentenced to death, but after Connecticut abolished it, they were sentenced to life in solitary instead. Both have since attempted suicide. It has been just about 10 years, and they’ve still both got about 40 years to go. Yet, they’ve already attempted suicide. This shows how torturous solitary for life can be. This method is indeed 100%