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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-07T12:00:00.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "City Life",
    "Inside Voices",
    "Vol. 55 No. 16",
    "Solitary confinement is a mental health crisis",
    "Chicago Reader"
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  "textContent": "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 […]\n\nThe post Solitary confinement is a mental health crisis appeared first on Chicago Reader.",
  "title": "Solitary confinement is a mental health crisis"
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