Inside a Maximum Security Prison’s Isolation Unit | Solitary Nation (full documentary) | FRONTLINE

Amid renewed debate over solitary confinement, revisit this visceral portrait of life for people being held in isolation at one maximum-security prison. (Aired 2014)

This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Donate to FRONTLINE now: https://bit.ly/47DFzCb

And support your local PBS station here: https://www.pbs.org/donate

On any given day, it’s been estimated that tens of thousands of people are being held in solitary confinement across the United States — some in the criminal justice system and others in immigration detention. Amid renewed debate over this controversial practice, revisit FRONTLINE’s 2014 documentary “Solitary Nation,” which examined what life can be like for people held in isolation in prisons.

“It’s like being buried alive,” Todd Fickett, who was convicted of arson and was serving his sentence at the Maine State Prison, said in the 2014 documentary.

Filmed at the maximum-security prison across six months, “Solitary Nation” documented the realities of solitary confinement through the experiences of inmates living in isolation, officers working in the solitary or “segregation” unit, and a warden who was trying to scale back on solitary.

For someone “who doesn’t work in a facility like this, they’re thinking if you punish them, you’ll make them better,” the warden, Rodney Bouffard, said in the documentary. “The reality is the exact opposite happens.”

“Solitary Nation” is a FRONTLINE production with Mongoose Pictures in association with the BBC. The director is Dan Edge. It is produced by Dan Edge and Elizabeth C. Jones. It is co-produced by Lauren Mucciolo. The executive producer of FRONTLINE was David Fanning.

Explore additional reporting on “Solitary Nation” on our website:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/solitary-nation/

#Documentary #SolitaryConfinement #Prison #Detention

Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PBSfrontline
Sign up for our newsletter: https://frontline.org/newsletter
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frontlinepbs
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frontline
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/frontlinepbs.bsky.social

FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and airs nationwide on PBS.

The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.

Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with major support from Ford Foundation, and The Fialkow Family Foundation, as part of the Plum Bush Foundation. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Trust, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and Corey David Sauer, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Prologue
01:23 - Life for People Held in Isolation in Maine’s Maximum-Security Prison
17:06 - The History of Solitary Confinement in the U.S.
22:51 - The Mental Health Impacts of Solitary Confinement
35:13 - Inside a Violence Reduction Program for People in Solitary Confinement
43:44 - The End of Six Months in a Solitary Confinement Unit
52:40 - Credits Receive SMS online on sms24.me

Watch on YouTube

Subscribe on YouTubeReaderBot

TubeReader video aggregator is a website that collects and organizes online videos from the YouTube source. Video aggregation is done for different purposes, and TubeReader take different approaches to achieve their purpose.

Our try to collect videos of high quality or interest for visitors to view; the collection may be made by editors or may be based on community votes.

Another method is to base the collection on those videos most viewed, either at the aggregator site or at various popular video hosting sites.

TubeReader site exists to allow users to collect their own sets of videos, for personal use as well as for browsing and viewing by others; TubeReader can develop online communities around video sharing.

Our site allow users to create a personalized video playlist, for personal use as well as for browsing and viewing by others.

@YouTubeReaderBot allows you to subscribe to Youtube channels.

By using @YouTubeReaderBot Bot you agree with YouTube Terms of Service.

Use the @YouTubeReaderBot telegram bot to be the first to be notified when new videos are released on your favorite channels.

Look for new videos or channels and share them with your friends.

You can start using our bot from this video, subscribe now to Inside a Maximum Security Prison’s Isolation Unit | Solitary Nation (full documentary) | FRONTLINE

What is YouTube?

YouTube is a free video sharing website that makes it easy to watch online videos. You can even create and upload your own videos to share with others. Originally created in 2005, YouTube is now one of the most popular sites on the Web, with visitors watching around 6 billion hours of video every month.