Three judges denied Mitnick bail and ordered him held in solitary confinement, where he stayed for eight months.
Robert Felton drifted in and out of acute psychosis for much of his solitary confinement.
Stuart Grassian, a Boston psychiatrist, has interviewed more than two hundred prisoners in solitary confinement.
Private Manning is being held in solitary confinement at a maximum security US military jail.
Mr Vanunu spent 18 years in jail including more than 11 in solitary confinement.
Neither Barack Obama nor John McCain, however, addressed the question of whether prolonged solitary confinement is torture.
At the same time, other states had just a tiny fraction of their inmates in solitary confinement.
Then he delves into our own experimentations with denying humans companionship: solitary confinement.
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Lauterbach said that during his captivity, he spent four days in solitary confinement.
This piece discusses the practice of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and how it destroys the minds of isolated prisoners.
FORBES: Too much privacy: Solitary confinement in U.S. prisons
As for Mr Hakamada, now 72, he is losing his mind as he languishes in solitary confinement on death row.
Mr Breivik is in police custody, in solitary confinement without access to news or the internet for the next eight weeks.
His lawyers have often expressed concern about his health in the past, usually demanding that he be moved out of solitary confinement.
In the prisoners Grassian saw, about a third had these vulnerabilities, and these were the prisoners whom solitary confinement had made psychotic.
After his release from solitary confinement, Leeson was diagnosed with colon cancer.
Sandusky, 69, is currently serving 30 to 60 years in solitary confinement.
She has been thrown in solitary confinement again and again and again.
He also wants to be moved from solitary confinement into house arrest.
He was transferred to a maximum security prison 400 kilometres away in the state capital of Chihuahua - and placed in solitary confinement.
Cells used for solitary confinement are often windowless, but this one had a ribbonlike window that was seven inches wide and five feet tall.
The Australian Broadcasting Corp. has reported that Zygier was a Mossad intelligence service agent who hanged himself in a supposedly suicide-proof solitary confinement cell.
One of the paradoxes of solitary confinement is that, as starved as people become for companionship, the experience typically leaves them unfit for social interaction.
FORBES: Too much privacy: Solitary confinement in U.S. prisons
They said he decided to work on prisons as a teenager, and had tried to reduce the use of solitary confinement in the state's prisons.
He then filed suit, claiming his rights of due process were violated since he was not given a hearing before being placed in solitary confinement.
Her attorneys said Shalabi told them she was beaten, abused, blindfolded and interrogated, and placed in solitary confinement for the first week of her arrest.
It is unclear how many prisoners in solitary confinement become psychotic.
Encountering a life-size model of a jail cell, visitors can go in and shut the door, to imagine what solitary confinement must have been like.
Advocates of solitary confinement are left with a single argument for subjecting thousands of people to years of isolation: What else are we supposed to do?
Arrested within minutes of the shooting rampage at his car in the theater's parking lot, Holmes is being held in solitary confinement in the local jail.
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Judges were being asked to rule on whether many of the men faced indefinite solitary confinement, something that their lawyers said would be totally unacceptable in Europe.
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