Geoff Mulgan

Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in other fields - uses of technology to link people together in networks to solve problems and almost certainly we'll get better ideas than we would from them just doing it on their own.

English Educator

Nellie Bly

All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.

American Journalist

John McCain

As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is communication with someone, even if it's only a wave or a wink, a tap on the wall, or to have a guy put his thumb up. It makes all the difference.

American Politician

Emmeline Pankhurst

Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.

English Activist

Martha Beck

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

American Author

Will Self

The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.

English Author

Noam Chomsky

Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.

American Activist

Joel Salatin

That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.

Jenny Zhang

Faced with ostracization at school and confinement at home, I turned to karaoke.

Chinese Actress

Tennessee Williams

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

American Dramatist

Confinement here often implies a lack of freedom and can evoke a sense of punishment or restraint.

Negative Emotion

This type of confinement is frequently discussed in legal, crime-related, or justice system contexts.

Legal Contexts

Confinement can be for a short period or many years, depending on the scenario it's being used in.

Duration Varies

This term refers to the time spent in labor and is a more dated or formal way to describe giving birth.

Childbirth Period

Discussing a woman's confinement for childbirth is considered personal and might not be talked about openly.

Privacy Expected

Confinement often refers to being restricted within a physical space, which can be a room, cage, or any bounded area.

Physical Space

Using 'confinement' can suggest a moral stand on the ethics of restricting movement, often seen as cruel.

Perceived Cruelty

Can be used metaphorically to discuss non-physical limitations, such as emotional or intellectual restraint.

Metaphorical Use

 and that isn't changing anytime soon. Facts like prisoners in the US can be kept in solitary confinement cells that are smaller than the size of an average parking space. The point of these visualizations is also to remind people of some really important statistical concepts, concepts like averages. So let's say you hear a claim like,

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 There's so many lessons in compassion that can be found here. How about a general universal mercy that we can all feel toward people who are in solitary confinement. Let's have that be part of the conversation. Now you've experienced it for two days in your own house.

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 that strange look soon as you say solitaria what you know then that give a little bit of backstory like oh no no I wouldn't do it no sorry I I know of one person that has been in a solitary confinement and he didn't get too deep

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 live in solitary confinement the prisons within prisons how could I bring nature's benefits here well in other places that are stressful and nature deprives such as hospitals for examples studies have shown that when patients

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 and had spent many years in solitary confinement, told me she was grateful to her jailers for the time she had had to think, for the wisdom she had gained, for the chance to hone her meditation skills. She had sought meaning

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 Not really part of this world, they're not really part of any world that's fully and tangibly human. It's for all of these reasons that international human rights law prohibits the use of long-term solitary confinement.

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 he said, "Me, too!" and explained how, even though he spends most of his days in solitary confinement, he and his neighboring prisoners make board games out of paper and call out their plays through their meal slots --

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 Every prisoner I've interviewed has said there are three flecks of light in the darkness of phone calls, letters and visits from family. CMUs aren't solitary confinement, but they radically restrict all of these

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 I felt helpless, unloved and abandoned. I felt like nobody cared, and I reacted with hostility to my confinement. And I found myself getting deeper and deeper into trouble.

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 a polar bear stirs she has been in her den the whole winter emergence marks the beginning of spring after months of confinement underground