We were not sure he was innocent, but we were not sure he was guilty, either, and having tasted the state's power during our confinement, we understood in a new way why the burden of proof was so heavy.
This twist on the Kantian doctrine of the unknowability of the Ding an sich (the thing in itself) and our confinement to the world of appearances, was congenial to Poincaré as a working physicist, but there is an important distinction to make.
Our solitary confinement practices and our collective refusal to do anything about prison rape often means that incarceration crosses the line into torture.
In our models, confinement to home took place after a person showed symptoms of influenza.
And there is no clearer manifestation of this than our routine use of solitary confinement — on our own people, in our own communities, in a supermax prison, for example, that is a thirty-minute drive from my door.
Which is to say that, in our time, only crazy people speak about religion in public, and everyone else sentences themselves to solitary confinement: our feelings of transcendence live and die in silence.
As days wore on, the crushing weight of our seclusion and confinement reduced us to tearful unanimity.
But whereas The Three was a freewheeling narrative set globally, Day Four is a more introspective, claustrophobic story set aboard a cruise liner in the Gulf of Mexico; and where the previous novel was a large-scale examination of worldwide disaster and cultural mores, Day Four plays with our dread of confinement and impending death.
For the show, seven young artists have been brought together in an effort to tackle, "the physical experience of air travel"—specifically, "our feelings of confinement, vulnerability, and over-exposure" felt at airports, curator Ellie Rines tells The Creators Project.
Also at 24 h after stress confinement, our results suggested the overall activation of transcriptional/translational machinery, possibly as part of the acute stress response to counteract oxidative stress and the associated cellular damage.
However, our data are among the first to evaluate swine confinement workers, our sample size was small (not likely representative of all swine workers), and exposure data were self-reported.
