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Lisa Guenther

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.  –Fyodor Dostoyevsky In recent years, resistance to the widespread use of solitary confinement has gained significant traction in the United States. Opponents of the practice have drawn upon everything from psychology and neuroscience to criminology and economics to show the many […]

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What It Means to Be Human: A Philosopher’s Argument Against Solitary Confinement

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by Maclyn Willigan

June 24, 2014

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