# Twenty-nine years alone

<http://kottke.org/10/09/twenty-nine-years-alone>

- Host: [kottke.org](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/kottke.org/)
- Saved: September 27, 2010 (2010-09-27T16:20:12Z)
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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

Robert King spent 29 years in prison in solitary confinement for a crime for which he was later cleared.


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.


See also Atul Gawande's piece about solitary from the New Yorker last year.
 Tags: Atul Gawande   crime   prison   Robert King

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