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I was totally unprepared for the inevitable introspection of solitary confinement
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Wrapped as I was in the cotton wool of solitary confinement, unable as I was to express any of my thoughts in concrete form or to engage in conjecture with another rational human being, nonetheless I spent hours imagining faces and clothes and names to accompany the hollow tapping sounds in the night
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After the ragged stresses of our transfer and our previous solitary confinement, compounded by a myriad of sour and wonderful new experiences and the discoveries of the afternoon, both Menachem and I were starving
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In accordance with the theory of life that I too had begun to adopt while in solitary confinement, I tried to develop a similar Zen-like acceptance of the here-and-now
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Regardless of how the crowd had reacted, would Ruby Tower punish him? Would he face the firing squad? Or the dark room? The thought of solitary confinement and sensory deprivation made him shudder, and he prayed that whatever Ruby Tower had in store for him, it would not be that
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solitary confinement took 15 hostages
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The three men were lifers and had spent considerable time in solitary confinement but
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“Regenc 4 discovered that when I was taken from Earth, I was placed in solitary confinement, as were a number of other hybrids who were part of the experiment
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explained that he’d been in solitary confinement the past three weeks for his own protection,
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Cannot you discern that no two persons are likely to agree as to the punishment which would satisfy the demands of justice? One would impose forty lashes, another twenty, while still another would advise solitary confinement as a just punishment
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Impressed with his zeal to examine life, Tiwari granted Suresh a free rein at Tihar except for interaction with the Punjabi terrorists rotting in their solitary confinement
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Terry spent months in solitary confinement after attacking inmates and officers who tried to get the better of him
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He was being held in solitary confinement, in the dark, without food and only water to drink once a day
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This was the solitary confinement of animal shelters
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She would never be able to kill herself in solitary confinement
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But that would probably just cause Laura to be beaten to a pulp, not killed, and then be placed into solitary confinement
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� The prospect of spending years in solitary confinement there would be daunting even to the toughest persons
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����������� �But� long term solitary confinement could drive her mad
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� Does she really deserve years of solitary confinement, Mein Fuhrer?�
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����������� �Cancel the requirement for Brigadier Laplante to be held in solitary confinement: she is already confined to her crippled body
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� �Er, what about my friends?� Susanna, Frida and Johanna are in other cells on this floor, serving two weeks of solitary confinement for helping me resist Hanna�s arrest
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It was encouraging after the fourteen days of mainly solitary confinement during which he’d fabricated his Black Death story as his only means of extricating himself from this aborted mess
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Of course, they were immediately whisked away and put in the city prison in solitary confinement where no one would ever see them
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Finally he said, "Okay I will have his family moved to a safe location, but the best I can do for him is to offer him a choice of a swift execution or solitary confinement with no human contact of any kind for as long as it takes us to put down Thorne’s attempted overthrow
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I'm in solitary confinement where I'm supposed to be allowed to come out for air one hour every other day
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They were badly bruised because evidently when I was still in solitary confinement back in Philly I was beating my heals against the steel cell door trying to get the guards attention with hopes they would bring me some water
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solitary confinement, or the SHU, the box, the hole, or even
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The solitary confinement ward had only one guard
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Mac had to sit it out in solitary confinement until the morning after 222
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solitary confinement followed by life house arrest
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“You’re in solitary confinement
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They were locking me in now I was in solitary confinement, but as always she had a key
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gagged, and locked into the solitary confinement cell
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Sergeant Brody was in solitary confinement
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Housed in solitary confinement cells of our disintegration, these selves have their own visitors and length of sentences
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' One cannot value life if one is struggling to survive; it is hard to rejoice when one is starving, in solitary confinement, or suffering from the terror of insecurity
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door jamming it shut and said, “I have them in solitary confinement
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She was going to stop hiding, and she was going to stop using her injury as an excuse to seclude herself like a leper or criminal in solitary confinement
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As the door closed, locking him once more in his solitary confinement, the vertical cracks on the accountant’s face deepened and he pictured a scene from an old movie where a village calf was tethered to a tree in the jungle to bring out the leopard
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When you are sitting doing your business in solitary confinement
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She would tell them she was held at knife-point, forced to put on the prison outfit, and escorted back here where she was bound, gagged, and locked into the solitary confinement cell
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It's like that movie we saw the other night where the guy was in solitary confinement and had nothing to spend his
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find themselves in solitary confinement, say in a prison camp where they were being continually
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—an object like the ghost of a walking-cane, which instantly broke its back if it were touched, which nothing could ever be lighted at, and which was placed in solitary confinement at the bottom of a high tin tower, perforated with round holes that made a staringly wide-awake pattern on the walls
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It was a secret interrogation center called Ofuna, where “high-value” captured men were housed in solitary confinement, starved, tormented, and tortured to divulge military secrets
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While in solitary confinement, he had had access to the news
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As an inmate in solitary confinement, however, Robert Puller could not lift weights or play basketball or softball or work in any of those shops
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But the story of which I was proudest involved my spending two days locked up in solitary confinement
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Maybe going back to solitary confinement was more than he could bear
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Longest period in solitary confinement: By 17 April 2013, Herman Wallace (left) and Albert Woodfox (both USA) had spent 41 years in solitary confinement, mainly in the State Penitentiary of Louisiana – known as the Angola Jail – in the USA
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Their arrival in the dining room had been for countless years a sort of frantic musical chairs, as they shook out napkins in a white fluttering and seized up utensils as if recently starved in solitary confinement, waiting for the summons to fall downstairs in a mass of twitching elbows and overflow themselves at table
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On this occasion, the postilion reached its address, although the person to whom it was addressed was, at that moment, in solitary confinement
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Thenardier had been in solitary confinement in one of these cages since the night of the 3d of February
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But I was in solitary confinement for two years
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I was like a prisoner let out of a solitary confinement cell after two years, and having found riches all around me, I feared losing everything
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A house whose inside is as open and manifest as a bird's nest, and you cannot go in at the front door and out at the back without seeing some of its inhabitants; where to be a guest is to be presented with the freedom of the house, and not to be carefully excluded from seven eighths of it, shut up in a particular cell, and told to make yourself at home there—in solitary confinement
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All the prosperous people of the world, the men of dignity and wealth, are as completely deprived of the advantages of work as if they were shut up in solitary confinement
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” His duty was to keep political prisoners, men and women, in solitary confinement in such a way that half of them perished in 10 years’ time, some going out of their minds, some dying of consumption, some committing suicide by starving themselves to death, cutting their veins with bits of glass, hanging, or burning themselves to death
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“Yes, that solitary confinement is terrible for the young,” said the aunt, shaking her head and also lighting a cigarette
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And the higher official, actuated by like motives, according to whether he is inclined to distinguish himself, or to what his relations to the minister are, exiles men to the other side of the world or keeps them in solitary confinement, condemns them to Siberia, to hard labour, to death, or sets them free at the request of some lady
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“Yes, he was a poet, a dreamer; this sort of people cannot stand solitary confinement,” said Novodvoroff
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“Now, I never gave my imagination vent when in solitary confinement, but arranged my days most systematically, and in this way always bore it very well
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The warden complained and the inspector ordered Vasilieff placed in solitary confinement
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These cells for solitary confinement were dark closets iron-bolted from the outside
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The next day he recovered, and was removed from the infirmary, no more to solitary confinement, but to share the common cell with other prisoners
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Stepan did not try to exculpate himself, and bore patiently his sentence which was three days in the punishment-cell, and after that solitary confinement
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The governor came, abused them all, and when he heard it was Vassily who had stirred up the men, he ordered him to be transferred into solitary confinement in the cell on the upper floor
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" And she opened the door of a tiny cell, evidently intended for solitary confinement, and now at the disposal of the political prisoners
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The military authorities sentenced him to three months’ solitary confinement
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The railways, telegraphs, photographs, and the perfected method of removing people, without killing them, into eternal solitary confinement, where, hidden from men, they perish and are forgotten, and many other modern inventions, which governments employ more freely than any one else, give them such strength that as soon as the power has fallen into certain hands, and the visible and the secret police, and the administration, and all kinds of prosecutors, and jailers, and executioners are earnestly at work, there is no possibility of overthrowing the government, no matter how senseless or cruel it may be
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The man lives peacefully; suddenly people come to him, who say: "In the first place, promise and swear to us that you will slavishly obey us in everything which we shall prescribe to you, and that everything we shall invent, determine, and call a law you will consider an indubitable truth and will submit to; in the second place, give part of your earnings into our keeping: we shall use this money for keeping you in slavery and preventing you from forcibly opposing our decrees; in the third place, choose yourself and others as imaginary participants in the government, knowing full well that the government will take place entirely independently of those stupid speeches which you will utter to your like, and that it will take place according to our will, in whose hands is the army; in the fourth place, appear at a set time in court and take part in all those senseless cruelties which we commit against the erring men, whom we ourselves have corrupted, in the shape of imprisonments, exiles, solitary confinements, and capital punishments
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Women, old men, innocent people, are killed, hanged, flogged to death, as lately happened in Russia in the Yúzov Plant, and as happens everywhere in Europe and in America, in the struggle with anarchists and all kinds of violators of the existing order; hundreds, thousands of men will be shot to death, killed, and hanged, or, as is done in wars, millions of men will be killed or ruined, or, as is constantly done, the souls of men are ruined in solitary confinement, in the debauched condition of militarism,—and no one is to blame
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There lives some judge, prosecutor, head of a department, and he knows that as the result of his sentence or decree hundreds and thousands of unfortunate people, torn away from their families, are lingering in solitary confinement, at hard labour, going mad and killing themselves with glass, or starving to death; he knows that these thousands of people have thousands of mothers, wives, children, who are suffering from the separation, are deprived of the possibility of meeting them, are disgraced, vainly implore forgiveness or even alleviation of the fates of their fathers, sons, husbands, brothers,—and the judge or head of a department is so hardened in his hypocrisy that he himself and his like and their wives and relatives are firmly convinced that he can with all this be a very good and sensitive man
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Railroads, telegraphs, telephones, photography, the improved method of disposing of criminals by imprisoning them in solitary confinement for the remainder of their lives in cells, where, hidden from human view, they die forgotten, as well as numerous other modern inventions upon which governments have the prior claim, give them such power, that if once the authority fell into certain hands, and the regular and secret police, administrative officials, and all kinds of procureurs, jailers, and executioners labored zealously to support it, there would be no possibility whatsoever of overthrowing the government, however cruel or senseless it might be
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One has but to remember the preparations for war, the cartridge-boxes, the silver-plated bullets, the torpedoes, and—the Red Cross; the establishment of prisons for solitary confinement, experiments with electrocution, and—the care for the welfare of the prisoners; the philanthropic activity of the rich, and—their daily life, which brings about the existence of the poor, whom they seek to benefit
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Or, fourthly, come to the law-courts, and take part in all the senseless cruelties which we commit against men, who are erring and depraved men, and who have become so through our fault,—in the form of imprisonment, exile, solitary confinement, and execution
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Women and old men are hung, are flogged to death—even quite innocent people, as was recently the case with us in Russia, in the affair of the factory at Uzova; or, as is done all over in Europe and America, in the struggle with anarchists and other revolutionists, hundreds, thousands of men are shot, are killed; or, as happens in time of war, millions of men are massacred; or, as is happening always, the souls of men are destroyed by solitary confinement, by the debauchery of barrack life—and no one is responsible
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There these hapless beings are locked up in solitary confinement, or sent to the galleys, where they go desperate and put an end to themselves by starving themselves to death, by swallowing glass, or by some such means
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Petersburg, where instruments of torture, such as chains, and models of prison-cells for solitary confinement,—means of torture worse than the knout or the rod,—were on exhibition, sympathetic ladies and gentlemen went to see them, and seemed greatly entertained
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Railways, telegraphs, telephones, photographs, and the great perfection of the means of getting rid of men for years, without killing them, by solitary confinement, where, hidden from the world, they perish and are forgotten, and the many other modern inventions employed by government, give such power that when once authority has come into certain hands, the police, open and secret, the administration and prosecutors, jailers and executioners of all kinds, do their work so zealously that there is no chance of overturning the government, however cruel and senseless it may be
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Fourthly, come at a certain time to the law courts and take your share in those senseless cruelties which we perpetrate on sinners, and those whom we have corrupted, in the shape of penal servitude, exile, solitary confinement, and death
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As well as we could discover by the eye, every thing was pleasing to my mind—and one innovation in discipline in the Marine corps gave me very great satisfaction, viz: the substitution of solitary confinement for personal chastisement
