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Oct 14, 2022 · Every day, tens of thousands of American prisoners are locked up in solitary confinement. This is how that looks for those behind bars, and those guarding them.
Apr 27, 2023 · I wrote No Human Contact to document the history behind the escalation of solitary confinement, examine the effects of long-term isolation, and to pose the question: Are any human beings truly irredeemable? Here are five titles that look at the mental health of incarcerated populations.
Apr 18, 2017 · A landmark 1890 Supreme Court case centered around James Medley, who’d been convicted of killing his wife and sentenced to die by hanging — after spending 45 days in solitary confinement.
Mar 24, 2020 · For 27 years, Keith LaMar has survived solitary confinement in a supermax prison in Ohio, isolated for 23 hours a day in a space the size of a bathroom.
- Samantha Michaels
Apr 13, 2016 · Governments in the Western world took up solitary confinement in earnest two centuries ago, and the practice — whether it was doled out as punishment, crime prevention or moral remediation — is...
The practice of solitary confinement in the United States traces its origins to the late 18th century, when Quakers in Pennsylvania used the method as a substitution for public punishments. Research surrounding the possible psychological and physiological effects of solitary dates back to the 1830s.
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The most recent and comprehensive count, presented in a May 2023 report published by Solitary Watch and the Unlock the Box campaign, found that more than 122,000 incarcerated men, women, and children were held daily in some form of isolated confinement in United States prisons and jails in 2019.
