“But a punishment like forced labour or even imprisonment – mere loss of liberty – has never functioned without a certain additional… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
“Damn it!” I rubbed my eyes. My head hurt from staring at the laptop screen the whole day. “I’ve got to put… — Chase Webster Copy Share Image
Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“We now dwelt in a very large prison, without walls, bounded by Canada, Mexico and two oceans. There were the jailers, the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Do you know how many men are incarcerated in solitary confinement? About 100,000 on any given day, if my numbers are correct.… — H.L. Sudler Copy Share Image
We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life! — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“According to the Post, Immigration and Customs Enforcement maintains fifteen detention centers around the country and on any given day there are… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“The world can understand well enough the process of perishing for want of food: perhaps few persons can enter into or follow… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“In August, Gehlen and a number of high-ranking colleagues were transported under Boker’s watch to Washington in the private plane of a… — Andrew Feinstein Copy Share Image
“It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survival is still alive in… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Imagine someone sitting alone in a room without television, radio, computer or phone and with the door closed and the blinds down.… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope. — Florence King Copy Share Image
Through every struggle that I have been confronted with and have been subjected to - solitary confinement, long legal battles, and physically… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
“In a universe devoid of life, any life at all would be immensely meaningful. We ARE that meaning. “And what we see,… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Those 18 months in solitary confinement... bruised my soul. If I had had a weapon, I would have fought my way out. — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Copy Share Image
As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is communication with someone, even if it's… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“They got it wrong when they called it “the closet." This was a prison. Solitary confinement. I was locked inside, inside myself,… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Jordan Two, on the other hand, was condemned to a state of being that made the harshest solitary confinement look like a… — Douglas E. Richards Copy Share Image
“Er is slechts één rijkdom en dat zijn de banden tussen de mensen onderling. Als we ons enkel en alleen inspannen voor… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“[Solitary confinement] is terrible. That is terrible. You're in a grave. You can't do anything. Everything's brought to you and you're in… — Megan Sweeney Copy Share Image
