corrections

8-1-12: Solitary Confinement

Recent reports have detailed the devastating effects on prisoners of long-term solitary confinement, even questioning whether it rises to the

Sheilah asked Michael Corbin about the history of solitary confinement. It goes back to the early 19th Century, at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. This account includes the differing reactions of Alexis de Tocqueville and Charles Dickens.