The Cardiovascular Health Burdens of Solitary Confinement

Older Prisoners and the Physical Health Effects of Solitary Confinement.

Effects of Solitary Confinement

Psychopathological reactions to solitary confinement were extensively described by nineteenth-century German clinicians. In the United States there have been several legal challenges to the use of solitary confinement, based on allegations that it may have serious psychiatric consequences. The recent medical literature on this subject has been scarce. The author describes psychiatric symptoms t...

Solitary confinement. An introduction to the Istanbul Statement on the Use and Effects of Solitary Confinement.

The use of imprisonment has been on the rise in many states during recent years and it has been estimated that more than nine million people are currently incarcerated worldwide.1 This poses many problems in terms of monitoring prison conditions and inmate treatment, since human rights violations tend to occur in this type of institution. Another obvious problem is the possible side effects of ...

Bacteria in Solitary Confinement

Even in clonal bacterial cultures, individual bacteria can show substantial stochastic variation, leading to pitfalls in the interpretation of data derived from millions of cells in a culture. In this issue of the Journal of Bacteriology, as part of their study on osmoadaptation in a cyanobacterium, Nanatani et al. describe employing an ingenious microfluidic device that gently cages individual...

Psychiatric Effects of Solitary Confinement

PREFACE .......................................................................................327 I. OVERVIEW .......................................................................................327 II. SOLITARY CONFINEMENT CAN CAUSE SEVERE PSYCHIATRIC HARM .......................................................................................333 A. Solitary Confinement Can Cause a Specific ...