Commentary: Prolonged solitary confinement is torture. We need to bring judicial oversight to the practice.
by David Stuart, Chicago Tribune
May 08, 2023
2 minutes
A Yale Law School report estimates that in 2021, 41,000 to 48,000 incarcerated people in the United States were isolated in cells the size of a compact parking space for 22 or more hours each day for two weeks or more. That is a minimum of 330 hours of isolation with one- or two-hour breaks each day.
In Texas, more than 500
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