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An Unhinged Democracy in AmericaNEW YORK – Alexis de Tocqueville, a liberal French aristocrat, visited the United States in 1831 ostensibly to write a study of its “enlightened” prison system (locking people up in solitary confinement like penitent monks was the latest modern idea).

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Dr. Ma Thida, a leading human rights activist who had nearly died in prison and had spent many years in solitary confinement, told me she was grateful to her jailers for the time she had had to think, for the wisdom she had gained, for the chance to hone her meditation skills.

I felt like nobody cared, and I reacted with hostility to my confinement.

And because of my activity, I landed in solitary confinement for seven and a half years out of my incarceration.

Now as I see it, solitary confinement is one of the most inhumane and barbaric places you can find yourself, but find myself I did.

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