On Reddit, someone reports that their (presumably teenage) sister had her phone taken away for a week by their parents as a punishment. Not only, however, was her phone confiscated. They’ve also been using it to upload a series of self-portraits like the above to her Facebook page.
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Robert King spent 29 years of his life in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary for a murder he didn’t commit.
It was a dimly lit box, 9ft by 6ft, with bars at the front facing on to the bare cement walls of a long corridor. Inside was a narrow bed, a toilet, a fixed table and chair, and an air vent set into the back wall.
Some days I would pace up and down and from left to right for hours, counting to myself. I learned to know every inch of the cell. Maybe I looked crazy walking back and forth like some trapped animal, but I had no choice – I needed to feel in control of my space.
At times I felt an anguish that is hard to put into words. To live 24/7 in a box, year after year, without the possibility of parole, probation or the suspension of sentence is a terrible thing to endure.
I was kept in the closed cell restricted (CCR) wing of the penitentiary, which is also known as Angola, after the slave plantation that was on the site prior to the prison. Three times a week I was let out for an hour to go to the exercise yard, where I was kept separate from other prisoners by razor wire.
He was cleared of the killing and released in 2001, but suffers to this day from lingering effects of his confinement.
Experience: I Spent 29 Years in Solitary Confinement [Guardian]
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