Solitary confinement is a mental health crisis

I began work that day as I did any other, sweeping the floor in solitary confinement at Pinckneyville Correctional Center in my $0.04-per-hour job. The cacophony of dozens of men roaring over one another, competing to be heard from behind the steel confining them, never allowed for silence during my eight-hour work shifts. As I […] The post Solitary confinement is a mental health crisis appeared first on Chicago Reader.