In the 20th century the underground cells, chilly even on a warm summer's day, were used to hold prisoners considered vulnerable, including sex offenders, whose confinement was as cut off from the rest of the life of the prison as the Victorians.
In solitary confinement, under interrogation, cut off from the outside world, accused of the most serious crimes against the state, I found these endlessly repeated assertions sinister: part of a world of secret cabals, plotters, and conspiracies in which I was supposedly involved without being aware of it.
Minors with mental health problems and other disabilities are held in "unconscionable conditions" of 23-hour solitary confinement and deliberately cut off from education and other rehabilitation at a San Francisco Bay Area juvenile hall, alleges a lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court in Northern California.
The B-1-HA specimen was almost the same as the B-1-H specimen, but its reinforcement for the lateral confinement of the beam was cut off at the beam-wall interface, without being affixed to the walls.
Another boy refused to swallow his medication and had his clothes cut off while in solitary confinement.
The confinement of the White House was also a shock; suddenly she was cut off from her old life and rituals, and she hesitated even to take her daughters to school or some soccer games for fear of causing a fuss.
Among its legion perversities, solitary confinement turns medical doctors into torturers; renders violent criminals more aggressive, and makes prisoners cut off from human society incapable of functioning in it.
The men were ordered out of the general prison population and into solitary confinement — or, in their parlance, "the box" — where they lived in tiny, elevator-size cells cut off from almost all human contact.
As I was kept in solitary confinement for four of the five years of my captivity, and for most of that time cut off from all outside communication, I could manage to discipline myself to do this.
