Solitary Confinement

[GenericScreen]

The difference being the occupant can leave.

23 hours a day. You have a choice of reading material 250-500 books, their subjects being completely random. You could have home and gardening next to a biography of Marshall Applewhite of the Heaven's Gate cult. All major religious texts are of course included. You can have as much paper and writing utencils as you want. Your uniform is an orange jumpsuit, the underwear not being particularly comfortable. You can have a modern game console and 10 games but no access to internet or any form of outside communication is allowed. The game can be of your choice. You can watch 3 television channels, the news, religious services and a third to be determined by the warden.

1 hour to exercise only you have a fully equipped gym instead of the usual supermax treatment of a pull up bar in what looks like in a drained pool. The gym is completely indoors as you will be for the duration of your stay.

When you are moved from your cell to the gym you are hooded and the guards will not communicate with you even if you yell. When your food is delivered (maximum of 3,000 calories a day) the guard will also not communicate with you then.

How long could you last? Pic related, it's your cell.

[VJF]

At 9/3/14 02:40 AM, GenericScreen wrote: The difference being the occupant can leave.

How long could you last? Pic related, it's your cell.

Since I love books, games, don't wear underwear, and don't watch TV that much, I would most likely be able to last years in this situation. My only problem is the color of the jumpsuit. Why couldn't it be black?

Also, what kind of food are we talking about cuz that could make a difference.

[solamander]

Is there any pornography?

[GenericScreen]

At 9/3/14 02:52 AM, solamander wrote: Is there any pornography?

I am the warden so I'm going to say the third channel stream 24 hours of whatever porn the occupant desires.

Also VJF, the food is standard prison food. Mainly carbs and starches, only the amount of protein necessary to keep you alive and it's blander than the worst TV dinner you've ever had. I'm going to go ahead and allow you to buy ramen noodles from the commissary (they're still delivered by a guard that doesn't speak) and you can have 10 dollars in your account each month maximum. Ramen noodles cost 33 cents.

[VJF]

At 9/3/14 02:55 AM, GenericScreen wrote:

Also VJF, the food is standard prison food. Mainly carbs and starches, only the amount of protein necessary to keep you alive and it's blander than the worst TV dinner you've ever had. I'm going to go ahead and allow you to buy ramen noodles from the commissary (they're still delivered by a guard that doesn't speak) and you can have 10 dollars in your account each month maximum. Ramen noodles cost 33 cents.

I could still live on that for years in their, as long as they had chicken and shrimp flavored ramen.

[solamander]

At 9/3/14 02:55 AM, GenericScreen wrote:

At 9/3/14 02:52 AM, solamander wrote:

That'd be easy time to my standards, Ramen is fkkin delish. How about prison yards? Would I have any time to work out, or talk to other prisoners?

[GenericScreen]

At 9/3/14 05:10 AM, solamander wrote:

At 9/3/14 02:55 AM, GenericScreen wrote:

At 9/3/14 02:52 AM, solamander wrote:

That'd be easy time to my standards, Ramen is fkkin delish. How about prison yards? Would I have any time to work out, or talk to other prisoners?

No yard, just an enclosed gym, excercise is one hour a day and there is no human contact aside from being escorted to the gym room. It's solitary.

[mysteriouslila]

I love books. But 500 isn't enough. Even small town libraries have more.
I like games, but I like playing in company.
I like films, but the channels don't seem to be any replacement for the cinema.
I love to write and draw. But what could I write about, and would I feel like drawing if I couldn't go outside and see the world?

I love to talk, I call my family several times a week. I live with my boyfriend. I feel alone when he's not here and I'd like a dog to take care of.

I volunteered in prison and I know that even talking to the guard is necessary for good socialisation. The convicts I worked with could talk to each other, to the guard, and to us volunteers. And yet they were all sad, anxious, bored, and depressed.

Keeping people away from the most basic form of social life, a conversation about the weather, for example, is evil and inhumane. It's the most subtle and most destructive form of psychological torture, and a type of abuse that should never be used by Justice.

I'd manage to stay in that situation maybe a week. Maybe two.

[Captain-Slugworth]

soon christmas presents for prisoners will be banned,
right on the month where the sucide rate is at an all time high.

[NGPulp]

I'd probably last less than 12 hours without drawing paper or a musical instrument.
I could just dig through the books out of boredom, though.

[BrenTheMan]

This sort of confinement drives most people insane. They've known this for 100s of years yet still do it.

[Magical-Zorse]

No drugs or alcohol? I could probably last a couple days.

[SubliminalVirus]

Cool... I don't need to worry about finding a place to live or how I plan on paying for everything... plenty of porn and some videogames, and no one to bother me! peace and quiet... Lock me away!

[Natick]

sounds fantastic, sign me up

[Scintillating]

At 9/3/14 02:40 AM, GenericScreen wrote: the occupant can leave

I would last one femtosecond. Seriously, I didn't see you mention any incentive to stay, like money.

[Mewie]

This doesn't seem like hell to me. I could probably do this for years.

Of course, that would make me a terrible husband and father (I have 2-year old twins) - so perhaps in a different season of life I would say years :) But if I was asked to do this today, this would be a great 2 week vacation for me haha

[Haggard]

Do I know why I'm in prison? Then I guess I could last pretty long. But not knowing why I'm there and no one telling me... yeah, I don't think I could cope with that too well.

[Bit]

So I can't deposit my experience?

I'd last about 23 hours before breaking out. Solitary confinement is absolutely inhumane. Even the most hardened criminals should be allowed to deposit their experience, and maybe even blam/protect if they are well behaved.

[NeonSpider]

At 9/3/14 02:47 PM, Bit wrote: So I can't deposit my experience?

Yes you can "deposit" your "experience" but it will make for a very sticky floor, wall, or wherever you "deposit".

[Bit]

At 9/3/14 03:12 PM, NeonSpider wrote:

At 9/3/14 02:47 PM, Bit wrote: So I can't deposit my experience?

Yes you can "deposit" your "experience" but it will make for a very sticky floor, wall, or wherever you "deposit".

My daily "experience deposit" requires a connection to Newgrounds and a few under-judgment submissions. Regardless of your definition of the phrase.

[Radaketor]

If i can leave anytime i want then what's the point in me staying? Is there something to gain?

If i was forced to stay there for as long as i could i could maybe last 3 days, probably less than that actually.

[Heretic-Anchorite]

It would depend on the books and what I did to have to be arrested and confined.

If I did something completely awesome and badass that I can be proud of, and the book collection included enough things and had a few a select books among it, I would be fine being there for a good while, maybe even the rest of my life.

This is mostly due to the fact that I could be content with my life, and at the same time have enough to maintain my interest. I would like more then an hour for fitness, but I can manage by doing some exercises in my cell and maximize my gym time. As far as the isolation goes, I can be a bit of a loner, but I would miss being able to talk to others. I wouldn't mind the isolation that much.

[Lich]

I'd walk out instantly if I was not being paid my current salary or higher to do it.

[Lorkas]

I wouldn't care that much. My life is already pretty much like that.

[GenericScreen]

To everyone asking for an incentive to stay, that was the point. There is absolutely no incentive to live like that, I was just curious how long someone could self-impose that lifestyle on themselves without being driven insane or leaving the experiment. There are no imaginary crimes or charges, just you and a cell. Personally I think I could last a full year. However, after a full year I'm pretty sure my ideas about how strong my mental endurance is would start to change.

Hard mode is you don't get a window for access to natural light and the television/game consoles do not display time like the usually do.

[LionzNTiggerz]

I think it would go like this:
Week 1: Week one is okay. It's a bit like a hotel trip with a slightly ominous feel
Week 2-4: Start feeling the reality sink in
Week 5-10: Periods of freaking out, enjoying the solitude, feeling lonely
Week 11-21: Assuming the guards aren't too brutal and the place isn't too imposing, a period of creativity might well up. You are really 100% free to do whatever you want, and nobody is going to stop you (unless you try to leave).
Week 22: Things don't quite seem the same anymore.. Mourning the end of the creative period. Quite painful.
Week 23-33: Trying to get back into the zone. Painful & frustrating
Week 34: Resigned to not getting back there, but the natural rhythms create a feeling of momentum, and things carry on
Week 35: Things aren't so bad after all. Returning to normal a little bit
Week 36: If you haven't already made the items around you into imaginary friends, now is the time to start with that kind of thing.
Week 37: Spending this week believing you've achieved enlightenment. Trying to open the door with your mind.
Week 38-52: The basic rhythms of insanity / sanity and boredom / interest, and whatever else have established themselves and continue to play out.

[TheBeanofan]

It depends, is there internet?

[NeonSpider]

At 9/3/14 05:08 PM, GenericScreen wrote: Hard mode is you don't get a window for access to natural light and the television/game consoles do not display time like the usually do.

So ... timed games are no longer timed? What? You suddenly get unlimited time to complete each level in, say, Super Mario Bros.?

Also lol, with all those amenities it wouldn't be that bad really.

[CiviLies]

I dunno, man. I really don't know. Maybe I wouldn't last a week, maybe I'd last fifty-two.

[GenericScreen]

At 9/3/14 06:22 PM, NeonSpider wrote:

At 9/3/14 05:08 PM, GenericScreen wrote: Hard mode is you don't get a window for access to natural light and the television/game consoles do not display time like the usually do.

So ... timed games are no longer timed? What? You suddenly get unlimited time to complete each level in, say, Super Mario Bros.?

Also lol, with all those amenities it wouldn't be that bad really.

All amenities included excluding human contact and also lul at timed games no longer being timed.