In this country, don`t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There`s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it`s the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
- Billie HolidayThe purpose behind this lawsuit is to improve the conditions of confinement for inmates in the county jail,
- John EldridgeI was placed in solitary confinement for a year and ten months out of the period in which I stayed in prison, which was just over two years.
- Wole SoyinkaIt`s important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
- Adam KeslerIf the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the use of information.
- Allan KlineSolitary confinement ... Two months of staring at the four walls of my hotel room.
- Angela Morgan... Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn that anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.
- Anthony SwerdlowHe sees death in convicted thieves, the burglars, the muggers, the con men, the pimps, a death imposed by law, the gradual death of confinement behind bars.
- Anton Gunawan