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Spencer Weinreich is a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows and Lecturer on the History of Science at Harvard University. He is currently working on a history of solitary confinement, entitled An Experimental Box. The Malefizhaus, described in this piece, is also the subject of Dr. Weinreich’s recent article in the Journal of […]

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Seventeenth-Century Supermax: The Origins of Solitary Confinement

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by Spencer Weinreich

September 25, 2023

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