The social death of prisoners in solitary confinement does not just affect the individual or the family or the local community it affects all of us who live in a society in which black brown and poor people of all races are criminalized and isolated in prisons for the sake of someone elses security and prosperity. Solitary confinement social death and its afterlives guenther lisa isbn 9780816679591 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Prolonged solitary confinement has become a widespread andstandard practice in us prisons even though it consistentlydrives healthy prisoners insane makes th. Lisa guenther solitary confinement social death and its afterlives 2013 xxi lisa guenthers solitary confinement aptly subtitled social death and its afterlives does an exceptional job of exploring the detrimental physical and mental health aspects of solitary confinement while she mainly set out to catalog the. Prolonged solitary confinement has become a widespread and standard practice in us prisons even 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