Confinement Quote by Cecily McMillan

The evidence is overwhelming that it should be deemed as such: solitary confinement in the U.S. is arbitrary, abused, and unnecessary in many situations.…

— Chelsea Manning

I did a lot of research on what solitary confinement does to you, how you become acclimated to being surrounded by people again after…

— Bill Skarsgard

As governor, I will work to reform the practice of solitary confinement, which studies and medical and psychological associations say causes negative mental health…

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

You start to forget about the world outside - it's not relevant or relatable anymore. The darkest part of solitary confinement is that you…

— Chelsea Manning

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

— Karl Kraus

Solitary confinement has been used extensively, it always has. I was in prison for 44 years; it was a normal part of life -…

— Wilbert Rideau

You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders. You can't do that, and they should not be held there. They need rehabilitative…

— Cecily McMillan

How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!

— Jules Verne

Falling and serving a sentence of solitary confinement. Result in the death sentence just filling my running assignment.

— Sage Francis

Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons,…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

There's no straight line between closing the mental institutions and filling the prisons but there is some sort of relationship. And it's hard to…

— Peter Moskos

As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is communication with someone, even if it's only a…

— John McCain