Single-celling
Single-celling is the practice of assigning only one inmate to each cell in a prison.
John Howard has been credited as establishing the practice of single-celling in the
United Kingdom and, by extension, in the United States.[1] In 1957, only 15 prisons
in the United States practiced single-celling exclusively while 41 prisons employed
it with a portion of their cells and 44 housed multiple prisoners in all of their cells.[2]
Critics of single-celling suggest that the practice imposes psychologically harmful
isolation on inmates, while advocates argue that single-celling alleviates many of the
inmates' discomforts.[3]
A prison cell designed for a single
inmate
See also
Solitary confinement
References
1. Michael Sherman; Gordon J. Hawkins (1983).Imprisonment in America: Choosing the Future(https://books.google.c
om/books?id=Xff18mD7Z94C&dq=%22single+celling%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s). University of Chicago Press.
pp. 3233. ISBN 0-226-75280-1.
2. Proceedings of the Annual Congress of Correction of the American Correctional Association
(https://books.google.co
m/books?id=pVouAAAAIAAJ&q=%22single+celling%22&dq=%22single+celling%22). American Correctional
Association. 1957.
3. Alexis M. Durham. Crisis and Reform: Current Issues in American Punishment(https://books.google.com/books?id=
D9BrAzpCNaEC&dq=%22single+celling%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s) . Jones and Bartlett Publishers. p. 107.
ISBN 0-316-19710-6.
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