🔗 The Solitary Life: Chilean Miners, Spacemen in Moscow and 20,000 American Prisoners « Prison Photography
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First, after months or years of complete isolation, many prisoners “begin to lose the ability to initiate behavior of any kind—to organize their own lives around activity and purpose. Chronic apathy, lethargy, depression, and despair often result. . . . In extreme cases, prisoners may literally stop behaving” (Haney). [They] become essentially catatonic.