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Today it is time to face the truth, and that gives us a different picture altogether. It seems that the pendulum has swung back. For one thing, solitary confinement has experienced a comeback that nobody would have expected only five decades ago. In some respects we are back at the days of Charles Dickens. What he had experienced in the 1840s any visitor of a communication management unit (CMU) or a supermax prison could easily witness again - if he were allowed into any of the highly secretive institutions. | Today it is time to face the truth, and that gives us a different picture altogether. It seems that the pendulum has swung back. For one thing, solitary confinement has experienced a comeback that nobody would have expected only five decades ago. In some respects we are back at the days of Charles Dickens. What he had experienced in the 1840s any visitor of a communication management unit (CMU) or a supermax prison could easily witness again - if he were allowed into any of the highly secretive institutions. | ||
===The Solitary Renaissance === | ===Back to the Start I: The Solitary Renaissance === | ||
But in the past 25 years, the penal pendulum has swung back toward | But in the past 25 years, the penal pendulum has swung back toward | ||
the practices—absent the theories—that governed the “Philadelphia | the practices—absent the theories—that governed the “Philadelphia | ||