Sarah shourd opening the box
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Sarah shourd opening the box!
Writer, editor, and solitary survivor Sarah Shourd is partnering with Solitary Watch to write and produce a play using real stories from a diverse pool of people in solitary confinement in the United States today.
The stories will represent a spectrum of people—immigrants, children, lifers and women. Some will have lived in solitary for a quarter of a century, others a few months or weeks.
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Sarah writes of the project:
A grey, limitless ocean that stretches out in front and behind you–a colorless world with almost all the life drained out of it–an emptiness and loneliness so inescapable and all-encompassing it feels like it might erase you.
The best way I know to describe the psychological torture of prolonged solitary confinement is that it feels like a slow death. Day by day, you lose your connection to everything outside the prison walls, everything you once knew and everything you once were.
I spent 410 days in isolation while held as a political hostage by the Iranian Governme