The Deadly Consequences of Solitary with a Cellmate
People talk about institutional evil. This is an example of it. You can almost trace their thinking &quot;Oh, so solitary is bad now. We&#x27;ll fix it. Put two people in a 10x4 cell. See, not solitary anymore, and we doubled the capacity too. Bonuses for everyone&quot;.<p>Ideally you&#x27;d think those who made those decision would be disciplined, pensions would be cut, etc. But nothing like that is gonna happen. Even if the family wins the lawsuit, it will be taxpayers paying for it.<p>One a deeper level, I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if many of those involved in running the prison would be thinking things like &quot;well good, less people less worries. So what if he kills another one&quot;.  Even more perverse, in some countries, prisoners who are known to kill and attack their cellmates are used as a coercion tool. That is effective against political prisoners and other undesirables who need to &quot;confess&quot; or be punished -- &quot;behave or you&#x27;ll end up in Sesson&#x27;s cell &lt;wink-wink&gt;&quot;. On paper it looks completely by the rules and clean.