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blj-2301	Minkin, Kaia	A Proposal to Reform the Practice of Solitary Confinement	2024	38	.pdf	application/pdf	10608	332	23	https://www.aclu.org/news/prisoners-rights/i-spent-16-months-solitary-confi nement-and-now-im 303 Dr. Hernàn Reyes, The Worst Scars Are in the Mind: Psychological Torture, 89 Int’l Rev. Red Cross 591, 607 (2007) 88 Brandeis University Law Journal 2023-2024, Volume 11 administration.307 If prison administration guidelines upheld this exclusivity and supermax facilities were restricted to only the most predatory, solitary confinement cells would stand virtually empty.308 Nationwide data documenting the use of solitary confinement in prisons in the U.S. estimates that as of July 2021, 48,000 individuals are confined in their cells for at least twenty two hours a day for a minimum of fifteen days.309 While this statistic has decreased from the 100,000 individuals housed in solitary confinement in 2014, the population of inmates confined in restricted housing among the two million individuals in state and federal prisons is massively unbalanced.310 A 2003 report based on data from state prisons throughout the U.S. by Human Rights Watch found one-third to one-half of inmates in solitary confinement cells to be mentally ill.311 Cognitively impaired and mentally ill individuals who struggle to comprehend and abide by strict prison regulations without treatment garner reputations as troublesome inmates, and are cast aside in solitary confinement cells.312 Intensified security measures entail being fed through a slot in a door, denial of physical or social contact, and a lack of access to medical services afforded to inmates within the greater prison population.325 The only available therapy for individuals in solitary confinement cells consists of conversations through a steel door, surrounded by other prisoners and officers.326 The inability to receive intimate and personal therapy in solitary confinement makes the available treatment largely ineffective.	cache/blj-2301.pdf	txt/blj-2301.txt