Isolation Isn't a solution

In the United States alone there are roughly 80,000 inmates subjugated to some form of solitary confinement each year. While in solitary confinement, these inmates receive little to no social contact each day. Typically, these inmates are forced to remain alone within their cells for 22 to 23 hours a day, nothing that the average solitary cell size is just 80 square-feet, which hardly exceeds the size of a king size bed. The long and daunting hours throughout which these inmates are obligated to remain in a state of complete isolation can provoke a range of phycological disorder. These…