Why all Virginians should care about the overuse of solitary confinement

Adam Ebbin, Charniele Herring and Patrick Hope

Too many prisoners are in solitary confinement for too long: Virginia’s nearly 1,800 prisoners in isolation are confined in an 80-square-foot cell 23 hours a day, seven days a week. They typically get one hour a day for recreation five days a week, confined to a 96-square-foot, chain-link-fenced area that can be described only as a cage. They eat alone in their cells and, by design, have little, if any, interaction with others.
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