Prisons and Spirituality | National Catholic Reporter

Prisons and Spirituality | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: This is relevant to the old Quaker Penitentiaries, which were abandoned because every prisoner was put in solidarity confinement to meditate on his sins.  Turns out they obsessed and went mad.  Not much has changed.  The problem is that not segregating prisoners can lead to violence.  We must find a medium someplace and it should probably include some social time - although doubling up on cells is probably more of a cost cutting measure than residual socialization.  Without a good treatment model, it hardly matters anyway - we are likely making matters worse.