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By continuing to use this website without changing your settings, you consent to our use of cookies. Some, like Pelican Bay Prison in California, keep over one-third of inmates in solitary.
Up until last year, Rikers prison in New York would even put and year-old children in solitary though they euphemistically renamed it "punitive segregation". They were forced to change that policy.
The estimated number of people in solitary confinement right now in the United States. As brought out in the video below, solitary confinement usually means spending between 22 and 24 hours a day alone in your cell.
A concrete slab with a thin mattress is your bed, and perhaps three times a week, guards shackle you for a minute shower. The only exercise you get is pacing around another concrete box that, if you're lucky, might have an uncovered ceiling.
