Rachel Kuhl- Supermax Prison

I think that in the Supermax prison the prisoners are made nonentities by limiting their ways of knowing. Since the prisoners are confined in a very small room for 23 hours a day and have no contact with the outside world or other people their language and sensory perception are very limited. To clarify, the prisoners are not talking to any other person and the only other people they see are the gaurds. Therefore the prisoners are completely deprived of language way of knowing. The prisoners sensory perception becomes very limited in the supermax because they are not even permitted to see the sky while outside of their rooms. Imagine never being able to see beautiful white clouds again and only seeing the same scenery everyday for the rest of one's life, this would be very difficult and depressing. With nothing in their surroundings changing the prisoners cannot learn anything new about the world and are stuck to dwell within their own minds. Without these two ways of knowing the prisoners become prisoners within their own bodies because at that point death might even be better than living in this prison. At the very end of this article it says "It's designed to destroy", I believe that this statement is very true. The prison destroys all hope for the prisoners of ever escaping. Supermax also destroys the prisoners' ways of knowing and without the ways of knowing one cannot be a knower and therefore is a nonentity.