Is there a way to voluntarily experience solitary confinement?

Yup. just go into your bathroom and have your significant other slide your food through the door two times a day. MAYBE let you out to a “yard” that is a metal cage measuring about 8X12X8 two or three times a week. Give you a book here and a book there every now and again. Just sit there. I could re-create those conditions. read more

Starting today, I plan to voluntarily spend 30 days in solitary confinement in the La Paz County Jail in Parker, Arizona. It won't be my first time in the hole, though. Starting today, I plan to voluntarily spend 30 days in solitary confinement in the La Paz County Jail in Parker, Arizona. read more

Certainly, having the ability to tap out makes the experience a little different- there are people in solitary confinement who have no end in sight. But neither one of those things change the reality of what extreme sensory deprivation does to the brain- the effects of solitary confinement happen whether you have an end date or not. read more