Solitary confinement

story world/staging: want the bed to be like this, and one opposite one other side (the room would of course be bigger than this). Allows for playing space under the bed, and for the bed to become something else during story scenes

If there’s a reason why Arthur Johnson has spent nearly four decades in solitary, Pennsylvania hasn’t given it—and now the case has national implications.

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His experience on the inside is the centerpiece of his new book, Mr. Smith Goes to Prison.

Federal agency guideline on the use of solitary confinement: An individual should never be locked in solitary confinement, except as an absolute last resort. Individuals, when in isolated confinement, must have the ability to socialize, to communicate and to physically interact with other individuals. This would be great news for those of us working on solitary reform, except for one thing: this guideline doesn’t apply to humans; it applies to mice.

What’s it like to spend 23 hours a day in a cell measuring 6x9 feet for days, weeks, months or even years? 6x9 is the Guardian’s first virtual reality experience, placing you inside a US solitary confinement prison cell, and telling the a story of the psychological damage that can ensue from isolation.

New ACLU Report Examines Devastating Impact of Solitary Confinement on Women SOLITARYWATCH.COM Today, the ACLU released Worse than Second Class: Solitary Confinement of Women in the United States. Recognizing that women in solitary are often ignored, the report examines the gendered impact of solitary and issues a series of recommendations.

Solitary confinement can cause neurological damage that is so profound it can be seen on EEG-scans and "the brain may become as impaired as one that has incurred a traumatic injury".

Prevailing understandings about race in prison often group black prisoners together, only separating them by gang affiliation. Yet, our essay suggests that religion has long been an important identifier for the prison staff who seek to control them.

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Solitary Confinement Human Torture

New programs are easing inmates out of years of solitary confinement with surprising outcomes for both prisoners and corrections officers.

It is brutal. It is torture by definition. It destroys the mind, body, and soul, making rehabilitation next to impossible. It is also outrageously expensive, and it doesn't work. Yet at the end of the Obama era, and the dawn of Trump's, isolation is as widely used as ever in the American penal system. And this is what it feels like.

A felon who did time in five maximum security prisons relates how he became an online marketing millionaire.

More than 30 states have moved to reduce their use of solitary confinement as prison hunger strikes, lawsuits and activism have brought new scrutiny to the mental health effects of isolation, and the risks that freed prisoners might pose following long-term exposure to solitary.