Solitary confinement

Background: Segregation, within the context of this study, is the removal of a prisoner from the wider prison to an environment that is regimented and controlling, and functions through enforced solitude. There is very little research that explores this environment from the pers…

The purpose of this study is to identify a link between solitary confinement and mental health. Seeing as though there is a dearth of research that discusses the many factors that can contribute to the decline in one’s mental health while in solitary confinement, this study will…

The purpose of this dissertation is to offer a theological challenge to the ongoing use of solitary confinement in the United States.

The emergence of globalization has resulted in the formation of what Hardt and Negri (2001) term "Empire," a regime of governance without territorial or temporal boundaries operating on all registers of life, from the level of political regulation down to the internalized level …