 Brownlee (2013, forthcoming) advocates a reform of the punishment and medical care institutions to avoid long-term isolation whenever possible, in order to ensure that prisoners’ and patients’ right against social deprivation is not violated. Quarantine, she thinks, should only be used when strictly necessary, and even then individuals should be enabled to remain in touch with their near and dear with the help of technology; and particular individuals (such as parents) ought to be allowed to take more risks than they currently may for the sake of avoiding separation from their children. She also argues that the practice of punishing through solitary confinement should be abolished.