ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Based on movies you might picture solitary confinement as a dark hole where a prisoner is isolated for hours without light. While a correctional sergeant and an ex inmate ...

That’s what solitary does. It breaks everyone in ... He needed care, not confinement. Instead, he was locked away, and like me, his problems only worsened. Between the ages of 18 and 21, Mikal ...

The United Nation’s Mandela Laws defines solitary confinement as 22 hours or more a day “without meaningful human contact.” ...

Like other survivors, however, he cannot separate his years in prison from his experience of “long term, repetitive solitary confinement.” It was even harder being around strangers.

Twenty-three hours a day, every day, for more than 3,000 days, South Carolina kept me in solitary confinement ... That’s what solitary does. It breaks everyone in different ways.