Solitary ConfinementProlonged solitary confinement has become a widespread and standard practice in U. S. prisonseven though it consistently drives healthy prisoners insane, makes the mentally ill sicker, and, according to the testimony of prisoners, threatens to reduce life to a living death. In this profoundly important and original book, Lisa Guenther examines the death in life experience of solitary confinement in America from the early nineteenth century to todays