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 very little to no social contact each day. Typically these inmates have to remain alone within their cells for 22 or 23 hours a day (the average solitary cell size is just 80 square-feet this isn't much bigger than a king size bed). That is a lot of time for anyone to spend alone and by spending so much time in isolation it causes a range of phycological disorder to occur. These disorders vary but the majority of them focus…