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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
Tennessee Williams / Playwright
Alone
Being Alone
Confinement
Loneliness
Lonely
Skins
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Inside
Own
Sentenced
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Me, you could stick me in solitary confinement for 100 years and I'd be fine.
Limmy /
Confinement
Fine
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Stick
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I spent 11 years in isolation units, solitary confinement... in the hardest places for women.
Susan Rosenberg /
Confinement
Isolation
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Units
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Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.
Noam Chomsky / Linguist
Confinement
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Torture
Charge
Imprisoned
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The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
Will Self / Author
Confinement
Life Is
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Writing
Apply
Essentially
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Those 18 months in solitary confinement... bruised my soul. If I had had a weapon, I would have fought my way out.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela / South African Politician
Bruised
Confinement
Months
My Soul
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Fought
Weapon
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The impact of solitary confinement can have a devastating consequence to the psychology of the people who are affected.
Valerie Jarrett / Lawyer
Affected
Confinement
Consequence
Impact
Psychology
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Devastating
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If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
Martha Beck / Author
Break
Confinement
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Seek
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How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!
Jules Verne / Novelist
Confinement
Dormant
Persons
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Condemned
Faculties
Horrors
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I have recurring nightmares about being in a Nazi concentration camp with all my family and constantly being sent to solitary confinement.
Matt Bellamy /
Concentration
Confinement
Recurring
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Camp
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I have a nice little office, with a nice little window in it, but I do basically spend huge amounts of time in what you could consider solitary confinement.
Mary Roach / Author
Confinement
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Window
Huge Amounts
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To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing.
Sophie Kinsella / Author
Confinement
Our Lives
Schizophrenic
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Authors
Books
Extent
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Shortly after arriving at a makeshift military jail at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, in May 2010, I was placed into the black hole of solitary confinement for the first time.
Chelsea Manning / Soldier
Arriving
Black Hole
Confinement
Jail
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Camp
Hole
Placed
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They put me in solitary confinement, and although I went on to do 8,755 days of solitary in total, the first two were the hardest. I almost went mad, beating my head against the wall.
Nick Yarris /
Confinement
Hardest
Mad
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Wall
Against
Almost
Although
Beating
Days
Total
Head
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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.
Emmeline Pankhurst / Activist
Confinement
Crime
Hardened
Matter
Punishment
Said
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Terrible
Beg
Too
Often
Human Being
Inflict
Instead
Lash
Prisons
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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 Holiday / Singer
Confinement
Country
Damn
Forget
Habit
Hell
Jail
Love You
Recovery
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Worst
Worst Kind
Outside
Private
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The evidence is overwhelming that it should be deemed as such: solitary confinement in the U.S. is arbitrary, abused, and unnecessary in many situations. It is cruel, degrading, and inhumane and is effectively a 'no touch' torture.
Chelsea Manning / Soldier
Abuse
Arbitrary
Confinement
Degrading
Inhumane
Overwhelming
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Torture
Unnecessary
Cruel
Deemed
Effectively
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As governor, I will work to reform the practice of solitary confinement, which studies and medical and psychological associations say causes negative mental health effects on children, pregnant women and people living with mental illness.
Michelle Lujan Grisham /
Women
Health
Causes
Confinement
Effects
Illness
Mental Health
Negative
Practice
Pregnant
Psychological
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Living
Work Health Women
Associations
Governor
Mental
Studies
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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.
John Mccain / United States Senator
Business
Confinement
Guy
Important
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Survival
Wall
Wave
Most
Thing
All The Difference
Only
As Far As
Tap
Difference
Even
Far
Goes
His
Important Thing
Makes
Put
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
Thumb
Wink
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I didn't mind the 23 hours a day solitary confinement for the majority of the time, because after the first few years in prison, when I stopped being angry and started to like myself and understand myself, it was OK. I still enjoy my own company sometimes.
Nick Yarris /
Angry
Company
Confinement
Enjoy
Hours
Majority
My Own
Prison
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Understand
After
Time Myself Mind
Stopped
Few
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You start to forget about the world outside - it's not relevant or relatable anymore. The darkest part of solitary confinement is that you start to forget about cars and jobs and families and weather and politicians - and all the things that make up a society.
Chelsea Manning / Soldier
Confinement
Relevant
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Weather
Darkest
Make Up
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Through every struggle that I have been confronted with and have been subjected to - solitary confinement, long legal battles, and physically transitioning to the woman I have always been - I manage not only to survive, but to grow, learn, mature, and thrive as a better, more confident person.
Chelsea Manning / Soldier
Legal
Confinement
Manage
Mature
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Thrive
Battles
Confronted
Subjected
Survive
To Survive
Transitioning
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I did a lot of research on what solitary confinement does to you, how you become acclimated to being surrounded by people again after being by yourself for such a long time. It's really a horrific thing. It's definitely worth considering it as torture. We're just not meant to be in solitary confinement.
Bill Skarsgard / Actor
Confinement
Considering
Horrific
Long Time
Meant To Be
Research
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Torture
Time Yourself Long
After
Did
Meant
Definitely
Time Long Yourself
Such A Long Time
Surrounded
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As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000.
Julian Assange / Journalist
Confinement
Media
My Time
Organization
Partners
Release
Revelations
Robust
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Victorian
Wikileaks
Writing
Approximately
Basement
Material
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