Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
Reply to @nick_routledge

2/ U.S. jails admitted nearly 11 million people in 2016, enough to fill prison buses lined up end-to-end from New York to San Francisco. We have 2 million in jail & 80K-100K in long-term solitary confinement. Mass incarceration employs more than US ag. facebook.com/100002219988748/posts/895255197225138/

Image attached to this archived post

Context in the archive

Quoted by@MassimoFaggioli 1/ The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture states that solitary confinement over 15 days should "be subject to an absolute prohibition” based on scientific evidence of its psychological damage. Yet incarcerated adults & youth in the US are isolated for months, years, even decades.