FB #1: Announcement
📰 NEW REPORT 📰
The watchdog group @SolitaryWatch and the advocacy coalition @UnlocktheBoxNow released a groundbreaking joint report showing that at least 122,840 people are locked on any given day in solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails for 22 or more hours a day.
These report numbers come closer than have any previously published figures in accounting for the total number of people in solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails.
On any given day in 2019, 80,758 people were in solitary in federal prisons. At the same time, and additional 42,072 people were locked in solitary confinement in federal and local jails.
Solitary is Torture. This is a humanitarian crisis.
Read the full report here:
https://solitarywatch.org/calculating-torture
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FB #1: Announcement
FB #1: Announcement
📰 NEW REPORT 📰 The watchdog group @SolitaryWatch and the advocacy coalition @UnlocktheBoxNow released a groundbreaking joint report showing that at least 122,840 people are locked on any given day in solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails for 22 or more hours a day. These report numbers come closer than have any previously published figures in accounting for the total number of people in solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails. On any given day in 2019, 80,758 people were in solitary in federal prisons. At the same time, and additional 42,072 people were locked in solitary confinement in federal and local jails. Solitary is Torture. This is a humanitarian crisis. Read the full report here: https://solitarywatch.org/calculating-torture
http://socialpresskit.com/facebook/1093-38549