So back in 1787, there's a group of people in Pennsylvania who had a big question, the

big question was, what do we do with criminals?

Because one of the things that happened is that when there were violent criminals back

in that time in the United States, if there were violent criminals, they were often just

punished.

They were either whipped or they were hanged.

And this group of people were religious, they were quickers.

And they tried to find a more humane way than just punishment.

They wanted to find a better way to deal with criminals.

They wanted to find a way that were criminals weren't just punished, they were rehabilitated.

And so they had the solution they proposed.

And the solution was, it never heard of before.

I mean, I guess you might have thought of it, but they implemented this idea of solitary

confinement, which really hadn't been ever tried before.

There's a man, he's a clinical psychologist who specializes in the effects of solitary

confinement, his name is Stuart Graschen.

He said this, he described, he said, why they do this.

He said there was a belief that you could put a person in a solitary cell far from the influences

of evil society and they'd become like a monk in a monastic cell, that they'd be free

to come close to God and come close to themselves.

And that because of that, they naturally heal from all the evils out of outside society,

which again, great idea.

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