A report from Yale Law School that questioned U.S. prison systems found that in the summer of 2021, nearly 50,000 men and women were held in solitary confinement in the U.S.
As the Guardian reported, the number was above the minimum standards set by the United Nations, which says that this type of isolation is considered torture.
The report data was obtained through surveys, which found that people in prison were being held in parking space-sized cells for an average of 22 hours per day and for at least 15 days.According to data from the Vera Institute of Justice, by March 2021, 1,193,934 men and women were held in prisons across the United States.
The Guardian's report highlighted the case of Albert Woodford Fox, who stood as the person that had endured the longest-standing solitary confinement in the country. He was locked into a six-by-nine foot cell for 43 years, with almost no breaks. He was released from Louisiana's Angola prison in 2016.Judith Resnik, a professor of law at Yale, said,"In the 1980s, people promoted solitary confinement as a way to deal with violence in prisons.
Solitary confinement has officially been given the name restrictive housing, or is sometimes called Special Housing United or Intensive Management Units.
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