inmates who are placed in solitary confinement “must be accorded meaningful periodic review to ensure that segregation [solitary confinement] is not a ‘pretext for indefinite confinement’”. as jules lobel, professor at the university of pittsburgh school of law, explains, lobel contends that the trend in u.s. supermax prisons is to not submit these reviews at all or to provide a review with a predetermined outcome to keep the prisoner in solitary confinement. if this is indeed the case, then such inmates’ due process rights are violated.