Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives by Lisa Guenther

Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives

Lisa Guenther

368 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Prolonged solitary confinement has become a widespread and standard practice in U.S. prisons--even though it consistently drives healthy prisoners insane, makes the mentally ill sicker, and, according to the testimony of prisoners, threatens to re...

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