The Consequences Of Solitary Confinement

The Leonard Lopate Show | Nov 30, 2017

Terry Allen Kupers, an award-winning psychiatrist and Professor Emeritus at The Wright Institute Graduate School of Psychology, joins us to discuss his book Solitary: The Inside Story of Supermax Isolation and How We Can Abolish It. There are 100,000 inmates in solitary confinement in the United States today, and Allen Kupers looks at the psychological and physical consequences of time in isolation. He also looks at the larger picture of how putting individuals in solitary confinement impacts society as a whole.

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