Flooding in Solitary
Preview: Season 2014 Episode 7 | 2m 53s
Does solitary confinement help or hurt prisoners? Some say it pushes them into insanity.
It was once believed solitary confinement would reform misbehaving prisoners, turns out it may push them to the brink of insanity. In Solitary Nation, premiering Tuesday, April 22 on PBS and at pbs.org/FRONTLINE, FRONTLINE takes you inside Maine's maximum security prison, where a new warden is trying to move inmates out of solitary, which isn't as easy as you might suspect.
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Flooding in Solitary
Preview: Season 2014 Episode 7 | 2m 53s
It was once believed solitary confinement would reform misbehaving prisoners, turns out it may push them to the brink of insanity. In Solitary Nation, premiering Tuesday, April 22 on PBS and at pbs.org/FRONTLINE, FRONTLINE takes you inside Maine's maximum security prison, where a new warden is trying to move inmates out of solitary, which isn't as easy as you might suspect.
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Clip: S2014 Ep7 | 39s | Former warden Gary Henman on how his Marion model worked to modify inmates’ behavior. (39s)
"Being Locked Down Was the Worst Medicine"
Clip: S2014 Ep7 | 58s | Former warden Gary Henman says inmates hate isolation, which is why it usually works. (58s)
Preview: S2014 Ep7 | 58s | Even in solitary, inmates find ways to smuggle contraband from cell to cell. (58s)
"It Only Takes One Rotten Apple"
Clip: S2014 Ep7 | 1m 12s | Former warden Gary Henman on his strategy at Marion to keep the worst inmates in isolation (1m 12s)
Clip: S2014 Ep7 | 34s | Former warden Gary Henman on why he decided to ease restrictions on some Marion inmates. (34s)
Preview: S2014 Ep7 | 31s | With unprecedented access, FRONTLINE uncovers the raw reality of solitary confinement. (31s)
Preview: S2014 Ep7 | 3m 3s | People think isolation is what drives some prisoners crazy. It might actually be the noise (3m 3s)
Clip: S2014 Ep7 | 45s | Former warden Gary Henman on why the lockdown at Marion federal prison was necessary. (45s)
Clip: S2014 Ep7 | 39s | Former warden Gary Henman on how a 23-year prison lockdown began at Marion federal prison. (39s)
"We Didn’t Isolate Them, We Separated Them"
Clip: S2014 Ep7 | 13s | Former warden Gary Henman defends the Marion model from criticism that it is inhumane. (13s)
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