In 1853 a new prison was built in Tasmania. Based on the English Pentonville Prison, the facility used prisoner separation and moral therapy principles of silence, solitude, and prayer rather than corporal punishment. John Lane, an ancestor of the author,...

Now into her 60s, Dannii Lane is a survivor with a lifelong history of mental illness and complex trauma as well as a lived experience of restraint and seclusion that goes back to the 1960s. Since 2005, Dannii has worked as...

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