Darkest Quote by Chelsea Manning

I have spent 11 horrific years in solitary confinement in a 6-square-meter dungeon three floors underground without sunlight or fresh air. But I endured…

— Samir Geagea

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

— Karl Kraus

The impact of solitary confinement can have a devastating consequence to the psychology of the people who are affected.

— Valerie Jarrett

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 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

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

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

— Jules Verne

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

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

Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is…

— Gary Chapman

During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was…

— Tahir Shah

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