Cover; Series; Prisoners, Solitude, and Time; Copyright; Preface; Contents; List of Tables; 1 Historical Perspectives; Chatter and its Discontents; The Architecture of Isolation; Debate and Dissent; The Model Prison; A ''maniac-making system''?; The Hard Cell of Solitude; 2 Reconsidering the Effects of Silence and Separation; Madness becomes Visible; Madness is Misattributed; Adaptation and Fearing the Unknown; Subterfuge; Rewriting Dickens; Extending Temporal Parameters; Then and Now; 3 The (Certain) Pains and (Uncertain) Pleasures of Solitude; Studies of the Solitary Prisoner
The Social ImperativeThe Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs of Being Alone; When Isolation is Invited; Crippling Lethargy; Silent and Solitary Virtues; 4 Pathological Loneliness; Accidie; Barbed Wire Disease; Winter-over Syndrome; Capsules and Frontiers; Wilderness Narratives; Interim Conclusion; 5 The Apotheosis of Solitary Confinement; Separation Redux (and Redoubled); Measuring Madness; Claim and Counterclaim; Carceral Creep?; 6 Making the SHU Fit (for Purpose); Recidivism; Staying Alive; Degrees of Isolation; ''Fetters of iron'' Without ''cords of love''
7 Lockdown, Infamy, and Inhuman RelationsMurder and Mayhem; Dramatis Personae; An Ecology of Cruelty; Victim Precipitation; Where to From Here?; 8 Time Passes, Inescapably; Calling Time to Account; Time Flies, in Retrospect; Chronophobia; Styles of Time Usage; Clock Time and Prison Time; 9 Critical Fractions: Life Lived and Life Left; The Pain Quotient; An Adjustment Curve; Structuring Prison Time; Threats to the Self; The Erosion of Memory; 10 Taming Time and Reframing Isolation; Rescheduling; Removal; Reduction; Reorientation; Resistance; Raptness; Reinterpretation
11 Withstanding Time''s AbrasionEarly Adapters; Seeking Refuge in a Supreme Being; The Buoyancy of Hope; Post-traumatic Growth; The Art of Living; Closing the Circle; Coda; Appendix; References; Index
