Cool Hand Assange
What Does Solitary Confinement Do To Your Mind?
Supporters say the practice helps keep prisons safe, and that may be true. What’s undeniable, however, is that solitary confinement can also take a heavy mental toll.
Assange and Manning …amateurs pfft…they should have used bleachbit and destroyed their cellphones with hammers.
I am trying to cut down on Clinton/Sanders/AOC criticisms…it’s upsetting the Ladies, but I think the world may have dodged a bullet with Hillary. Doh… I did it again
I wonder if he will get conjugal visits from Pamela Anderson
my :
they didn’t allow him use of toilet facilitaties toward the end, or they are making it up.
who thinks that the most highly watched captive in the world would suddenly go on a : throwing tantrum?
I guess you’re not aware of how extreme isolation affects cognitive abilities and human behavior. Dude probably progressively lost it over the years.
I know the feeling … Taiwan has its good points too , in fairness
so, all prisoners do that in prisons?
he had Internet, had Pamela. he had a bit more to help him through psychologically.
I’m all ears, errr eyes, if there’s research into poo-smearing incarcerated people
Did I say that? No. But some certainly go crazy and lose it in solitary confinement.
At work. I’ll give you some research later if you want. But yes, social isolation does have an effect.
no you did not, but you mentioned severe isolation and gave no examples. the most common one that closely relates to his situation is prison. Kidnapping certainly is not comparable.
what other forms of isolation?
CIA experiments? no
Guantanamo Bay? no
Oh you know… there’s just this
https://wp.nyu.edu/steinhardt-appsych_opus/effects-of-solitary-confinement-on-the-well-being-of-prison-inmates/
And this
Supporters say the practice helps keep prisons safe, and that may be true. What’s undeniable, however, is that solitary confinement can also take a heavy mental toll.
And this
'It is a form of cruel and unusual treatment — I think that is undeniable'
And this
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/20305083/
And this about someone also rubbing his feces on the wall during confinement
It is brutal. It is torture by definition. It destroys the mind, body, and soul. It is outrageously expensive. It doesn't work. And this is what solitary confinement feels like, from 35 prisoners who have lived through it.
That took me a 10 second google search to find. There’s hundreds of articles about the effects of confinement on the human mind.
And since Assange already looked crazy and neglectful of basic hygiene when he came out.
I’m going to believe the Ecuadorians on this one.
i accept those research pieces, but I still disagree. so, like politics, i agree to disagree
An interesting Glen Greenwald article on the Assange indictment. It looks like Mike Pompeo is the driving force behind it.
The Trump DOJ is exploiting animosity toward Assange to launch a thinly disguised effort to criminalize core functions of investigative journalism.
He doesn’t need to worry, when released he can get a seasonal job as Santa in any department store.
From the news video, I couldn’t tell if he couldn’t walk or if they had him hog tied.
He’s gone have fun, one of his associates was arrested in Ecuador.
Amazing after all these years…they have just noticed.
President Lenin Moreno tells the Guardian that Assange tried to use the building as a "centre for spying".
And of course , by sheer coincidence, they have just signed a 4.2 Billion dollar deal with the iMF.
and …6 Billion from the world Bank, French Dev Agency,Inter -American Dev. Bank, CAF bank,Latin African res.Fund,
and.
What a lucky break .