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A landmark analysis by Solitary Watch and Unlock the Box exposes high rates of solitary confinement in US prisons and jails.
After 21 days, the last of many Texas prisoners to consistently refuse food ended his hunger strike. In letters to The Texas Tribune, two prisoners spoke out on the dire solitary confinement conditions that led them to starve themselves.
Citing a spike in slashings at the facility, 76 since June, Department of Correction Commissioner Molina says the change is necessary to deal with the detainees there who are “most prone to violence.”
The numbers have been rising steadily each month. As of Sept. 27, 11,368 inmates were held in solitary, up from 10,607 in May.
Some states have reduced solitary, and a new bill offering federal incentives to others that follow suit is before Congress, but long-term change will only happen when authorities are willing to rethink “prison culture,” a webinar was told Wednesday.
The death last month of Woodfox, a celebrated prison author who spent 42 years in solitary confinement for the murder of an Angola prison guard, evokes a poignant tribute from a former inmate who claims another prisoner confessed the murder to him.
The latest statistics show that as of Aug. 1, 228 people were held for longer than 15 days, including 50 locked in for between 31 and 90 days.