Border Patrol Agent Jesus Diaz is looking at getting multiple years inside a prison for “pulling handcuffs” during arrest in Texas. Meanwhile, he’s been in jail since the verdict nearly two months ago. He’s in solitary confinement 23 hours per day for his safety. So far, the judge has refused to allow bond while Diaz awaits sentencing. Solitary confinement in itself is punishment and extreme living conditions inside a prison or jail.
Solitary confinement in itself is punishment and extreme living conditions inside a prison or jail. Prisons designed for solitary confinement are instant isolation units merely by their design. Many times, when ex-lawmen are convicted of a crime they are placed inside one of these concrete boxes to do their time in protective segregation units inclusive of maximum custody in many states or federal prisons.
None, even the best of the best, choose to remain inside one of these boxes any longer than they have to because of the steady pandemonium that exists within cell to cell and inmate to inmate.
Many have electricity but often, if the inmate is problematic in sorts, the breaker is turned off for a designated amount of time undocumented anywhere. The same applies to delayed letter deliveries, torn books, food thrown on the floor as a message that the inmate “needs to clean up his act” and other SID methods of satisfying the boundaries of control and who is actually in control of the box. Never getting a hot meal or balanced diet, they live like that forever until someone questions why this inmate is not getting a regular meal.
This builds animosity between staff and inmates and often results in frequent force being used during those periods where the inmate is escorted out of his or her cell to go to the recreation pen.
Personal property is limited especially if designed a suicide problem or behavioral troublemaker. SID can be used by staff, employees or even other inmates. SID is destructive and responsible for homicides, suicides, serious assaults on both staff and inmates and is rarely identified as the cause or catalyst for such disruptive conduct. Any inquiries by family members may prompt further SID treatment and create additional stress between the administration and the inmate
