Solitary confinement unfit for any human
Regarding the Dec. 15 AJC article “Georgia prison system engages in deception as crisis builds”:
Visiting a solitary confinement unit in one of our nation’s prisons should be required of every voting citizen. The amount of suffering caused by locking a person away in a small concrete box for 23 hours a day is unthinkable. To be expected, this practice is purposefully kept out of view and obscured by monikers like “special management unit” or even “the hole.”
We are wired for connection and become profoundly unwell when lacking contact with trees, birds, sunlight and other people. Many incarcerated people were abused early in life, compounding their suffering. If the job of prison is rehabilitation, in this regard, we are failing miserably. Hearing the screams of trapped and cutoff people would likely have an effect.
DARBY CHRISTOPHER, DUNWOODY
Geoff Duncan is also like a ‘rudderless ship’ politically
Geoff Duncan (“Republicans appear to be winning it all,” AJC, Dec. 12) apparently likes his politics as he does his metaphors: mixed and laced with bromides. Duncan is a Republican, but he’s spent the past several years and numerous nauseating opinion pieces lambasting the GOP and Donald Trump and, more recent, cheerleading for the Democrats and Vice President Kamala Harris. He wrote, “negative headlines around Democrats read more like a missing person’s report involving a rudderless ship without a motor,” which, oddly, could also apply to Duncan, as no one is sure in what, if any, political party he’s to be located.
Some AJC subscribers, including me, wish he and his tiresome political takes would become missing from the paper’s opinion pages. Duncan could emulate an “awkward positive for Democrats” by showing “a willingness to quickly admit a mistake.” With the 2024 election season over, the “former professional baseball player” and self-aggrandizing GOP gadfly deserves to be benched as a political screwball.
GREGORY MARSHALL, MARIETTA
