Eighty thousand prisoners face solitary confinement on any given day in the United States. Many remain alone and in their cells for 23 hours a day for months or even years without meaningful human contact. Once a hardly employed practice, the advent of super-max prisons and the explosion of the prison population have turned solitary confinement into a regular form of discipline in many American prisons. According to Uri L'Tzedek and Rabbis for Human Rights-North America, this form of incarceration is legalized …More