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"Incarcerated People, COVID-19 Lockdown, and Mental Illness." The COVID-19 lockdown of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections has transformed the state prisons into one massive solitary confinement system: a prisoncrat's dream come  true, yet a nightmare for incarcerated prisoners who are fighting to maintain their mental sanity and emotional stability. Solitary confinement is proven to cause mental illness and emotional trauma in human beings whom are social beings by nature, which makes solitary confinement the antithesis to human nature. Here in the state prisons, incarcerated people are fighting just to keep their heads above water under the COVID-19 lockdown of prisons. Incarcerated persons can be seen in a constant agitated state: very stressed, on an emotional roller coaster of mood swings, outbursts of anger, aggression, severe depression, and suicidal. Were not for the free Zoom visits, phone calls, and email to maintain communication with family and friends; were not for the yard period to socia