 Once they are released from prison, too, they often have a harder time adjusting to being a part of society again, and frequently end up back in prison.Ex-offenders who were held in solitary confinement are more likely to commit violent acts against others once released than those who spent all their time in the general prison population.As one California prisoner who wrote for "The Fire Inside" prison magazine put it, “We go through these kind of mental, emotional, and spiritual stages.