Lisa Guenther

Lisa Guenther is a philosopher at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Her latest book is Solitary Confinement: Social Death and its Afterlives (2013).

Written by Lisa Guenther

A prison cell with metal bars, peeling paint on the wall, a door numbered 25 and a man standing behind a mesh screen.

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Human rights and justice

The concrete abyss

We know solitary confinement annihilates the minds of its victims — but what does it do to the rest of us?

Lisa Guenther