Solitude (also seclusion, isolation) means lack of contact with other people.
Short-term solitude is often valued as a time when one may work, think or rest without being disturbed.
Long-term solitude is often seen as undesirable, resulting from inability to establish personal relationships. However, for some people solitude is not depressing. Still others (e.g. monks) regard long-term solitude as a means of spiritual enlightenment.
Its source is the so-called “war on drugs,” which cost taxpayers a cool 12 billion in 2004 alone, and has done nothing to reduce illegal drug use or availability.
The oftentimes harrowing accounts of her interview subjects not only foreground the trauma children are exposed to through the current system, but offer glimpses of where it has gone wrong — and could go right.
While white-collar criminals whine about the criminalization of politics, the criminalization of families by a supposedly family-friendly government is a far more real and common thing — as innocent children are forced to share in the punishment of parents who never stop paying their dues.
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