Solitary confinement

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.

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

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.

The psychological torment of solitary confinement, that would surely drive someone to insanity, especially going with a prolonged lack of social interaction. (Or the social alienation of race that forces the repression of character for black people in america)

solitary confinement

Padded Cell <3

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.

Assessing the U.S Penal System - ten-year-old locked up in a Texas detention center - Photo by Steve Liss

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.

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

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".

No. 518097"s containment room

Richard Ross, Photographer in Santa Barbara, California, creator of Juvenile In Justice and Architecture of Authority

Solitary Confinement Human Torture

If you're planning a trip to San Francisco then a visit to Alcatraz Island needs to be on your list of things to do. Here are 15 things you need to know before visiting Alcatraz Prison.

My own experience of prison exemplified the paradox that prison can be a liberator. It can free us from ourselves and our pride-ridden prejudices. In many ways, prison serves as a metaphor for the role and purpose of suffering in our lives... (click the link below to view the full essay by Joseph Pearce)

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