Robert Maudsley - Solitary Confinement

Solitary Confinement

In 1983, Maudsley was deemed too dangerous for a normal cell, so prison authorities built a two-cell unit in the basement of Wakefield Prison to house him for the continuation of his confinement. The cell is perspex and the furniture is made of cardboard. He remains in solitary confinement 25 years on, and once a day he is allowed out of his cell for one hour's exercise in a yard 20 feet long by 12 feet wide. Every move he makes is always under the watchful eye of at least five guards. He has not come into contact with any other inmates since being moved into the cell.