Prolonged Solitary confinement has become a widespread and standard practice in U.
S.
Documenting how soli.
In this profoundly important and original book, Lisa Guenther examines the death-in-life experience of Solitary confinement in America from the early nineteenth century to today\'s supermax prisons. prisons--even though it consistently drives healthy prisoners insane, makes the mentally ill sicker, and, according to the testimony of prisoners, threatens to reduce life to a living death.
Prolonged Solitary confinement has become a widespread and standard practice in U.
S