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A review by dannafs
Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement by Jean Casella, James Ridgeway, Sarah Shourd
4.0
“There are better ways to manage a prison than crushing inmates, treating them worse than animals, and driving them insane and then releasing them back into society.”
“More difficult to calculate are the human costs not only to those who suffer in solitary, but to the rest of us in free society. ‘What does it mean,’ Lisa Guenther asks in this volume, ‘to share the world with millions of people in cages?’ How does it affect our humanity to dehumanize others to such an extent that we allow them to live in conditions unfit for any animal—and do so in the name of our own safety and well-being?”
“More difficult to calculate are the human costs not only to those who suffer in solitary, but to the rest of us in free society. ‘What does it mean,’ Lisa Guenther asks in this volume, ‘to share the world with millions of people in cages?’ How does it affect our humanity to dehumanize others to such an extent that we allow them to live in conditions unfit for any animal—and do so in the name of our own safety and well-being?”