First and foremost, prisonization is the process of limitation of personal freedom due to criminal activity. To be more specific, it is a measure of punishment for the individual who made significant harm to society. While some people claim that prison is a great method of resolving social inequality between a perpetrator and their victims, the fundamental value of the concept significantly differs from the general opinion. This is because prisonization influences a person not to reconsider their behavior in society, but to suffer severe punishment from both physical and mental sides (Paterline, 2016). When a person passes the whole day in inhuman conditions, such as cold douche, cold nights, poor vitamin food, and hard physical activity, they become even angrier. This occurs because they are punished for a long term, and life after prison is usually ruined owing to the impossibility of gaining a job in the vast majority of places to live a normal life.
On the other hand, secure housing units (SHUs) are an alternative project that only devastates the incorrect consequence of prisonization: to make people more dangerous to the society due to the problems that the prisoners faced during their term of freedom limitation. The main issue of SHUs is that the absence of community forces a person to experience a significant mental crisis because humans are social creatures from the very beginning of their lives. Moreover, when a person passes the whole day sitting in the same place, their boring sentiment at the first stage might progress dramatically so that a person might even become psychically ill, which will be ruining the rest of the individual’s life.
Last but not the least, prisonization at the severest stage might not only affect the mental side of the personal nature but also deteriorate human’s physical conditions. While sitting in a small room with no possibility to organize a full-muscle training, some prisoners experience atrophying consequences of muscles inability to work (Valera, 2016). From this perspective, SHUs are harmful to every part of the personality, making them even more dangerous to society than creating common means of transport for prisoners.
References
Paterline, D. B. A., & Orr, D. D. (2016). Adaptation to Prison and Inmate Self-Concept. Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Science, 4(2).
Valera, P., & Kates-Benman, C. L. (2016). Exploring the Use of Special Housing Units by Men Released From New York Correctional Facilities. American Journal of Men’s Health, 10(6), 466–473.