Solitary confinement survivor, Candie Hailey, stated in an interview, “Physically, I'm free, but mentally, I still have the thoughts of solitary confinement” (Ari 1). These thoughts can range anywhere from flashbacks to anxiety and feeling constantly on edge, thinking that the social isolation could come back at any time. Just as any severe trauma survivor can have detrimental issues the rest of their life, solitary confinement survivors can be constantly disrupted in their day-to-day life with the pain of what they experienced. Depressingly, solitary confinement is often experienced by people who society least expects. It is widely believed that solitary confinement is reserved only for the extremely dangerous and insane; “[b]ut in fact, many are placed in solitary for nonviolent offenses, and some are not even criminals, having been arrested on immigration charges. Others are thrown into isolation cells "for their own protection" because they are homosexual or transgendered or have been raped by other inmates” (Solitary