``When I testify in court, I am often asked: \'What is the damage of long-term solitary confinement?\' .
Solitary is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the true damage that solitary confinement inflicts on individuals living in Isolation as well as on our society as a whole..
Kupers criticizes the physical and psychological abuse of prisoners and then offers rehabilitative alternatives to Supermax isolation.
Touring Supermax security prisons as a forensic psychiatrist, Kupers has met prisoners who have been viciously beaten or raped, subdued with immobilizing gas, or ignored in the face of urgent medical and psychiatric needs.
Terry Allen Kupers, one of the nation\'s foremost experts on the mental health effects of solitary confinement, tells the powerful stories of the inmates he has interviewed while investigating prison conditions during the past forty years.
This is the reality of approximately one hundred thousand inmates in solitary confinement in the United States today.
The damage from Isolation is dreadfully real.`` --Terry Allen Kupers Imagine spending nearly twenty-four hours a day alone, confined to an eight-by-ten-foot windowless cell.
Many prisoners emerge from prison after years in solitary with very serious psychiatric symptoms even though outwardly they may appear emotionally stable. . . ``When I testify in court, I am often asked: \'What is the damage of long-term solitary confinement?\'
