Several prisoners surveyed, when asked if they feel different from when they first arrived at Supermax, describe themselves as more hateful. I've become forgetful and very intolerant, argumentative and anti-social. I sometimes have inhumane thoughts of murder, rape, etc. I feel nothing but hatred. I was never like this.
Most negative behavior is impulsive.
Gov. Tommy Thompson, who championed construction of Supermax, had contended that inmates held in isolation should be transferred to Supermax. But Thompson said he finally agreed to the new segregation cells at Oshkosh after Corrections Department officials said transferring those inmates would disrupt their educational classes or substance-abuse treatment. He hasn't changed his mind in the year since the prison opened. That thing was more a function of the governor's intention to promote an image of getting tough on crime. They could have put those problem inmates in other institutions.