How to Survive Solitary Confinement | AJ+
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- Hear from Jason, who spent 7 weeks in solitary confinement in Iran on how he survived the ordeal.
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Washington Post columnist Jason Rezaian was imprisoned in Iran for 544 days during his time as a correspondent in Tehran. He spent 7 weeks in solitary confinement. In an interview with AJ+, he explains how he survived that experience.
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“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.
The us does this shit all the time.
My story:
I'm 21 and a student of theology. I was in a park six months ago with my friends talking about a movie and drinking juice. Some guys showed up with regular clothes and arrested me. They were intelligence agents.
Spent a month in solitary confinement. No TV, no human contact(except for interrogation one hour every three days), no books except for Quran, no pens and papers and no nothing. I wasn't allowed to sing or read my Quran out loud. It was pretty hard. I wish no such thing happen to any of you. You start to hear noises all the time. The sound of water droplets coming down from the Faucet, the lamp always being lit even at night and the sound of the air conditioner goes on your nerve. The absence of electricity is always welcome as itt gives you a temporary peace. The sound of the door getting open and not knowing what is going to happen to you is maddening. Everytime you sleep, you see dreams. That's the most enjoyable part of your time. Sleeping is both entertaining and helps to pass the time quicker. I guess your brain wants to amuse itself in the absence of interaction with anything. You sometimes forget you're in prison in your dream. You think the prison is just a nightmare. You wake up only to find about the sad reality. This happens to you specially if you are arrested out of nowhere and shocked and scarred. You start to speak to yourself. You start to pay attention to small details. The ten minutes when you're allowed to have fresh air is very enjoyable. You pay attention to everything. Things that are written on the wall and thinking about the story of those who are or were here. The small flower that has grown in the edge if the wall. Giving it water everyday gives you purpose. Things that were very boring to you like reading or waiting in the traffic become your wishes. Not knowing about you family and worrying about your old father and sick mother makes everything a hundred times worse. Uncertainty about your career and education future is saddening. Humiliation is the worst thing. Waking up seeing yourself in prison uniform is terrible. I'm no criminal. I'm just a young man who had different political and theological views. Never thought you would get arrested for talking your mind. Religion really helped me a lot. I tried to make sense out of what happened to me. I tried to look at it as chance to make a better me, thinking of all the bad I have ever done and all the good I could do and so. Being alone with yourself gives you the chance to take a look at yourself and your past. Not knowing if you're going to be killed or in prison for a long time makes you sad about your past and how you wasted the time you had. Not having any great achievements or maybe not being as useful as you could be and maybe not experiencing all the things you wished is really saddening. I'm out now. I'm going to the gym. I got on a few trips. I can sit near the river close to my house and watch it for an hour without getting bored. Reading, learning and talking with people and everything is fun. I enjoy life much more. I'm not best I can be but I'm trying. Putting aside old habits behind is hard. I'm working on a few projects I wanted to do for a long time and In the next few days I'll tell the girl I love about how I feel about her. Hope she doesn't reject me but getting rejected is better than not saying anything. I learned that life is very fragile and regret is the worst thing that can happen to you. I'm thankful to God. That month helped me to change for the better. I hope I can do good. Wish you guys all the best. I hope such terrible things don't happen to you and I wish you all the best. Go and search for truth. Go and do good to others and yourself. Kiss your parents and loved ones while you have the chance. Don't let regret come to you later 🙏
Thanks for the inspiration now that I think of it,everything I’ve gone through it doesn’t come close to what you went through. Sometimes when I wish I had someone to love or to be loved actively, it reminds me there are people like you wishing to live in peace.
So many trivial things I desire yet I see now that I have everything I could’ve asked for and caring what others think of me and my actions is insignificant. There’s no greater freedom than being able to live at ease.
@@Ajax2696 God bless you
I spent several months in solitary confinement and in order to make it you have to have an incredible mind and a spirit that knows how to adapt.........period.
How did you survive?
I worked out everyday and played hangman with neighbor thru vents
@@shailytamrakar318alot of people do drugs, to sleep the time away
What d I you recommend for advice to that prisoner?
looks like I can adapt.
Though this was in 🇮🇷, this illustrates why 🇺🇸 (which also uses solitary confinement) needs prison reform.
Prisoners are People. That doesn't ignore the crimes of the guilty, it's just not treating them like animals.
Exactly. This happens all the time is American prisons. Even in juvenile centers.
In Britain they have phones and ps4s in their cells
I agree with you Buddy, in fact I will NEVER step foot in America for the simple reason I could be incarcerated and thrown in death row, for a crime I didn't commit and be executed. Point in case Linda Carty from the UK, I think her name is, she got pinned for something she didn't do and now fighting for her life on death row. The prison system in the US is so corrupt, that even when they know your innocent they still want to execute you, how in the world does nobody do anything about this? Why aren't these corrupt attorneys etc held accountable?
im innocent yet if i go back ill be put in solidarity confinement because im trans so they'll claim its for my safety yet when i was in there i was having a panic attack and crying non stop.
Thank you. I spent one week in solitary in Florida. I had server ptsd before being placed in solitary, I now dissociate from my surroundings constantly and I've fallen into a deep depression, I've isolated myself from my friends and family and I can't even go to stores to shop anymore. I've completely lost hope in humanity. I'm scared to be around anyone out of fear. I have panick attacks frequently and I can't sleep at night very well because I'm scared I'll wake up back in that room with the lights on freezing and starving..
Exactly!!!! 😢
I am afraid im going to meet somebody whos going to put me in a threatening position again
You owe yourself, and your enemies, a fuller energy. Go out and find it.
they have hurt many people this way, i also have panic attacks and i never used to.
a huge part of the us prison population is in permanent solitary confinement
@@Cisco13 I think the guy meant mentally and physically. The American prison system is stuck.
@@watersbey25 took me few seconds to figure out where you’re going with this 🥲
I have been isolated for a very long time. Even before corona happened. When everything shut down, my thought was "welcome to my world" :-
Same.
not even close to similar
Ive done about 2years in solitary single cell n its lonely but its better then banging up with another grown angry violent man
Agreed 👍
What kind of solitary? No TV no books no nothing?
uh, at 1:46 the graphics are incorrect, it states the height of the cell is 4.5 feet (that should be width not height!) because in the next few seconds Jason advises "I could lie down in one direction but not the other" then immediately after "there were two windows very high up near the ceiling... that I couldn't see out of". Then at 2:24 he said "I began pacing in, in my cell..."
I was arrested in 2007. I wasn't in solitary confinement. Only in in jail. My mind strong. I didn't like it I survived. Anytime I feel like I'm going to be arrested or if I feel like I'm going to go to jail I feel like a death feeling
Any prison guard who put somebody in solitary confinement, whether it's for their job or not, is going to hell, and they are going to feel what solitary confinement feels like for eternity. I hate America and the justice system. Nonviolent offenders get put in the hole as well and it's crazy
yup.
so, basically when in solitary confinement, (correct me if im wrong) you have to have an adaptive mind, and strong will. You have to get in the mindset of "I will get out" and be more positive, meditate every now and then. sleep it off. just try to enjoy it a little bit. Just be optimistic.
No. It just gets worse you can't tough it out you have endure and eventually you will break.
honestly, there is nothing you can do. humans are not meant to be like this. this is considered a form of torture and they arent supposed to go past 15 days but they do.
sometimes you dont even get your one hour of rec. its suffocating and hard to sleep when people are banging and screaming.
the sheer boredom is enough to psychological break you. imagination and optimism isnt enough really.
your best bet is not caring enough of the time, that eventually youll be out. but the whole way it will be hell. all you want to do is open that door, walk a bit, but you cant.
Some American prisoners have been in solitary for over 20 years if not more.
This gives me mad anxiety
Excuse me so what did he do to be imprisoned?
Oh that's right nothing.
How about whoever sent those 'armed security forces' that imprisoned him, spend some time in solitary confinement too?
I bet you then we'd see some prison reform and justice!
Why am I watching this when I should be sleeping
My uncle been in the shu for 7 years straight, he still in it rn. He says A LOT of people try to commit suicide/ go mentally crazy. I can’t imagine the mental torture that must be
So sad.
i was in there for one day and broke so ya i cant imagine. i might be going back even though I'm innocent it doesn't seem like they care.
its their policy to put me there for, " my safety" since im a trans woman but really id rather be raped than spend one more second in that room.
On my own, bad asthma, contact free delivery. COVID 2020. Looking for tips....
I wonder how bathroom works in this circumstance whether in Iran or USA?
metal cold toilet/sink
Thx
The toilet is different here in Iran. Search to see images
You beat my record brother congratulations
I love solitary confinement
how can you stay in a 4 x 8 cell but then have "high windows" in the same space??
How is he okay with talking about this?! 🤯
Here after one year of the pandemic locked in my room haven’t seen my friends since then
So, did they ever charge you / your wife with anything? Was there a trial? Any evidence?
I think solitary confinement is useful for VERY short time, so I'm talking a day or two. Only circumstance I would think that would be useful would be if there is an ingoing feud between gangs or something and they need a cool off period. Maybe that could be of benefit? But for any long period time? Absolutely not.
He went to hall for 544 days
imaging coming out in 2020😂
Real Survivalist!
I also agree we should get rid of solitary confinement. Its cruel and unusual. Russia forbids it even; and there very harsh.
US governments are doing far far worse with the prisoners in Guantanamo bay prison. Have you raised your voice for their rights after suffering & going through the lesser form of solitary confinement compared to Gitmo prisoners ?
They Gitmo dudes have interaction daily. Can't compare.
I did t get any of those
Really when I was in
Abu-Ghareeb prison
End solitary confinement now....!!!
Interesting video 👍
I would like to know if its harder to be in solitary isolation in Iran verse the united states?
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You know nothing about Iran prisons :))
@@R-shaaw ok, since you know about both prison systems, then you can answer the question easily, right?
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who this guy name?? tell me please
Never hold a gun or knife pointing at some1 tts rule number one
Amen
This guy is definitely a spy
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One guy in Ace Combat 7 loved putting people in solitary
When I first came here I was sent information on how the Taliban treated their captives and how to survive and attempt to humanize your self Iam not in prison if I die here I will just be labeled in many awful ways there are ways of doing this and torture without prison look at the death sentence of covid????
What happened to his wife?
Music.
For death row inmates its double edged sword
Only 7 weeks? thats easy
You forgot to say "hold my beer."
I spent for weeks and it was terrible
People say they are humans the question is what to do with humans that break the law 2 or more times its like the took the second chance amd then just shit on your face so solitary thank god they dint kill them
Practice zen that's it
What's that?
@@shailytamrakar318 don't even search that. It might backfire on you.
You know what’s funny, he was probably a real CIA agent
Using it as a method to extract information doesn't work ... Yeah Im not a cia agent
The only difference is you did nothing wrong.
Murderers do belong in solitary.
y?
its torment i would not wish on anyone. it really is that bad.
you should be treated the way you people treat your prisoners and if we compare it with what american do with their prisoners you were in heaven
you should be thankful to Iran at least they have given you a 2nd chance to live!!!
#guantanamo bay
And, no.
It isn't.
Iranian vs Biden regime: same
Boo hoo
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A criminal does not care abaout u or ur family or the rest of the world why should we care abaout them
You have no idea
because it's really really bad. also innocent people get put in there. it causes brain damage and you're never going to recover mentally. its inhumane and cruel and unusual punishment.