Uncle Remus
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It's a RI article, but it mentions "a national movement against solitary confinement for prisoners." Interesting read.
http://m.providencejournal.com/news/20160302/ri-debates-curbing-solitary-confinement-of-inmates
It's definitely a national movement:
On any given day in this country, it’s estimated that over 80,000 prisoners are held in isolated confinement.
https://www.aclu.org/report/dangerous-overuse-solitary-confinement-united-states
The brief is included in a pdf at the bottom.
Then there's this:
Albert Woodfox, the longest-standing solitary confinement prisoner in the US, held in isolation in a six-by-nine-foot cell almost continuously for 43 years, has been released from a Louisiana jail.
Last November James Dennis, a judge with the federal fifth circuit appeals court, described the conditions of Woodfox’s confinement. “For the vast majority of his life, Woodfox has spent nearly every waking hour in a cramped cell in crushing solitude without a valid conviction,” he said.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-louisiana-jail-43-years-solitary-confinement