Simon discusses how the super-style prison exemplifies the heinous conditions and the lack of concern to reform prisons. Typically, supermax prisons are designed to protect prisoners and officers, allowing the officers to have more order and monitor the inmate’s movements. It could be argued that by restricting their actions, it would limit violent and disruptive behavior, however, Simon claims that the prisons are merely “human warehouses” that not only aim at nothing more than custody but by keeping inmates locked up in their cells for 23 hours a day violates the Eighth Amendment. He is correct in the sense that solitary confinement violates human rights, and can be considered as an act of “cruel and unusual punishment.” No matter what horrific