Buried Alive: Stories from Inside Solitary Confinement
&gt; the federal government and about half of the states in the country began restricting their use of solitary. These efforts gained bipartisan support for economical, not compassionate, reasons<p>That is the most telling line about how the Government thinks. Do these people not think about how cruel solitary confinement is?<p>The best way to make people understand these cruel practices is to imagine themselves in solitary confinement. Would you want that? Obviously no, so why would you wish it or allow it on somebody else? Slightly tangential, but people who are openly racist or hate certain religions, ask them to imagine themselves as the people they hate.<p>The recent elections, and articles such as these are reminders that humanity is still very medieval. Sad!