Last Days of Solitary (full documentary) | FRONTLINE

48 thoughts on “Last Days of Solitary (full documentary) | FRONTLINE”

1. The howling is really eerie 👀😳

2. They all share a commonality: varying degrees of mental illness.

3. Gordon begs to get out to gen pop..then what 2/3 days later fucks up what a shock

4. 14:50 "expert on blood" has his safety glasses on upside down.

5. Adam…stay strong…hard to comprehend what you're going through bud. I hope you find grace one of these days. Stay close to your lady…do right by her, with God's strength in faith…maybe you both can figure it out. Sad what the state does to people these days. Instead of paying the state, you should pay a lawyer to represent. At least you can have someone defending you, and that money going to something actually making a difference. The state doesn't need that money. It's just an excuse for them. Stay up bud.

6. Stupid system
   They eyes are black

7. The things that happen when you torture people. 😢

8. Attention seeking, very weak minded individuals. Accountability has never even entered the chat for em until now and they lash out any way possible. It’s always someone else’s fault to them.

9. There is absolutely no way I’d be living in something like this. But remember these people are where they are because they brought it on themselves. No one else brought it on them but themselves….They know exactly what they’re doing and they know exactly how to get themselves into consolatory confinement.!!!
   If you can’t do the time,then DON’T do the crime !!!!!
   And at the same time, it is not OK for officers or whoever it is to forget about these prisoners!!!
   They also need to get soundproof rooms/doors, of course with window so they can see what these prisoners are doing!!!!

10. Imagine all the life you miss if you end up here for very long time….parties ,girls ,dinner in beach restaurants,travelling around the world ,enjoying the nature…Damn….

11. I think I’ll behave myself and stay out of prison 😊

12. I hope they pay those prison guards a lot of money 🥹

13. Fuck yhe police

14. People that work there should sit in yhe same box

15. "A brutal murder threw the prison into crisis" Oh no! 😮
    "The police says he stabbed a child molester" Anyway 🙂

16. How do you get to be in there?

17. Bless the staffs because I could never work in one of those places I'd end up in prison if I did because I'd snap and go old school on those prisoners.

18. I have a BA in Psychology. Watching this proves that State Psychiatric Hospitals MUST be opened back up!!! Mental illness runs in my family & I suffer from anxiety. Not having an easy childhood and a mom that was sick wasn’t easy!❤

19. Respect to the warden for actually wanting to help the inmates.

20. 1:10:00 90 days before u go home gang!?!?!?

21. There needs to be a nationwide campaign for volunteers to help. Because there’s no funding available for paid staff. Volunteers in masses. Even on solitary confinement. Everyday, a few times a day. Too many prison psychological go to work, scribble prescriptions, collect a check, and call it a day.

22. 1 word.. Eugenics 5:50 and these “people” will be released onto the world? just end them and do them and society a favor 10:06 umm read books take advantage of the hundreds of programs prisons have 1:14:46 nobody cares about chomos! I’ll buy that dude some noodles 1:31:26 look.. get a job as a Walmart stocker like half of the population.. ALWAYS take advantage of the programs and halfway houses! it’s 100% doable it really is 1:32:47 ignore, make a list, pay attention to the list 1:34:33 use Uber and .coms and behave 1:40:08 fines come first! not cigs not beer! pay out and be done 1:45:14 Hannibal had values 1:47:55 that’s a terrifying individual right there and one thing I see always is brain injury with these people.. we gotta open mental hospitals again and I’ll be one of the first to sign up for work because it’s necessary 1:49:25 GP needs to 💀 he’s making bad people worse

23. why are there even prisons still in business?

24. The man, Adam, was working. Garnish his fkn wages if your so concerned about court fees and bs. Instead, they arrest him, make him loose the job he had im sure, and then throw him in jail where he can't possibly pay off his fees and will have to restart alll the progress he made all over again! He wasn't causing any harm. These people aren't given ANY grace period to get a job or housing etc before these fees are due. So they start out, already behind and playing catch up. Getting thrown in the county jail over COURT FEES, not restitutions that are paid to victims, all the dang time! And it does nothing but bleed tax money away and smash any progress they've made or any structure theyve started to provide for themselves. As well as put a huge wound into any relationships they might have that they've begun to try and heal with their family and support systems. And EVERYONE needs a support system. Period. Imo, Adam getting thrown in county jail near the end is the perfect example of how the system KEEPS people in the cycle and prevents people from taking steps to reform them damn selves. From reaching their goals of becoming productive members of society. it is set up in such a way that it works against reform instead of with it, especially after they are released. Because prison and jails are NOT reforming the majority of inmates. Period. Thats a nation wide problem, not just Maine. Yes, fees should be paid when they are due. But the system should be set up in at least a reasonable way…how can someone whose been locked up for maybe decades, to all of a sudden find access and successfully attain ALL of the necessary things to live nvm have enough extra to pay fees…fees that if not paid are NOt detrimental to anyone or anything. If the mans working and can show where his money is going to (and its shelter, food, basic living and not drugs etc etc) Then the fkn fees can WAIT. Keep in mind that if your on parole or probation, you cant be homeless. Or youll be thrown back in jail/prison. Its hard AF for people whove never been arrested to manage these basic things these days. Nvm someone with an entire system working against them. I know factually that the system is set up to make them fail. Then we, society blame the inmates for not being able to overcome a system thats set up for their failure. That is NOT the type of people we want living next door. People who know/feel that no matter what they do, how hard they work and try to better themselves, they stand a very good chance of getting locked back up and losing it all again anyways…. Thats like backing a wild dog into a corner. They need to feel like they have opportunities to do better, and statistics show the VASt majority of people WILL take those opportunities and do just that!.

25. 12:22 get the fuck out of here. I got six others talking in my head. No you don’t you’re just an idiot who can’t think for himself.

26. No sympathy for these “men”. You got your self there deal with it. You want attention and self gratification so much and cry when when your held accountable. Forget you. Hope you all rot in there. Pray to God to save you .

27. Good show

28. 21:44 😅😅😅

29. These wardens and psychiatrist are incompetent beyond measure. I mean wow. This might as well be the real life Stanford prison experiment.

30. يضعونهم في مواقف لايتقبلها عقل ثم يطلبون منهم أن يكونوا أسوياء هذا تعذيب حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل

31. حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل في كل مؤذي لا يخاف الله فيهم

32. Any updates on some of these inmates for 2025?

33. Complaining about solitary is childish. I feel no empathy for someone who clearly underwent so many filters and they still took the wrong turn. Even when they get to prison, they still had a choice of behaving cool to avoid the hole. Yet they get there and complain bc they can’t get their education when they had soo much time in GP and out in the real world. A bunch of childish and low life people, they get what they deserve. They’re not men, they’re just a bunch of little boys

34. I live alone in Aroostook county. I see other people briefly twice a month. This is my tenth year of voluntarily living this way. My cabin is 400 sq feet, but I live daily in a space that 6 x 12. I don't freak out and trash the joint. I don't lash out. I'll go days without speaking because there's nobody to talk to. At no time do I never SI or behave in an unbalanced way. These people did something to deserve incarceration and misbehave after that. It's simple: act demented, get removed. Keep ON acting demented, keep on bring removed.

35. There might be worse places than Maine to serve prison time in the USA… but not many I think. That horrible prison in Louisiana, Leavenworth, Supermax Colorado, and… what? Maybe if these perps would avoid doing things like assaulting Law Enforcement Officers while in prison, they just might just avoid Solitary Confinement. If not… well, you see what they suffer. Unlike my true sympathy for those poor little innocent monkeys who went through those awful experiments, I have little to no sympathy for these repeat-offense human perps.

36. U acted like an animal on the outside so ur going to get treated like an animal on the inside. I have absolutely zero sympathy for criminals. My heart goes out to the victims of these criminals never the criminals themselves

37. 35:03 I disagree, solitary conefinement isn't the answer. And yes! there are programs that can help these prisoners back into society. But you fail to use them, because you don't believe they will help them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is one of them.

38. 13:24 "We will get you some help"! Yeah Right!
    And a lot of these prisoners who harm themselves, who get help are place back into solitary confinement to continue the self-abuse.

39. 2025 here. Solitary confinement is still very much being used!

40. Solitary confinement is inhumane

41. Ad-Seg can drive someone nuts.. I remember doing 6 months in the red roof in! I started talking to myself and everything 😂😂😂. All jokes aside though, it's made to break you down… The Red Roof In, Is In Bordentown NJ..

42. That half coagulated blood spiraling down the drain was poignant right to the heart of the matter

43. Grrrrr that pisses me off what they did to Adam…rearessted for stupid court cost

44. I believe death penalty is much better in many aspects…

45. That Fickett guy breaks my heart.

46. It’s really messed up especially that a decent portion of the guys in solitary are non violent drug offenses. Obviously if you break the rules in prison there needs to be some sort of punishment but there has to be something better than this to deal with that. This just seems to exasperate existing problems, not solve them

47. Violent criminals don't deserve better. These people are in prison for a reason. Let them suffer.

48. Can you at least get books to read in solitary?

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