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                                          Two weeks ago today, Solitary
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                                          Torture, a report showing that
                                          at least 122,840 people are in
                                          solitary confinement in U.S.
                                          prisons and jails. Ours is the
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                                    Counting Everyone in Solitary
                                    ConfinementĀ Matters</a>
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                                              #101517; margin-bottom:
                                              24px;">Two weeks ago
                                              today, Solitary Watch and
                                              the Unlock the Box
                                              campaign published <em><a
href="https://solitarywatch.org/calculating-torture/" style="color:
                                                  #007117;
                                                  text-decoration:
                                                  underline;"
                                                  moz-do-not-send="true">Calculating
                                                  Torture</a></em>, a
                                              report showing that at
                                              least 122,840 people are
                                              in solitary confinement in
                                              U.S. prisons and jails.
                                              Ours is the first report
                                              to provide a snapshot of<em>
                                                all </em>individuals in
                                              solitary confinement for
                                              22 hours or more a day in
                                              <em>all</em> U.S. state
                                              and federal prisons <em>and</em>
                                              local jails, based on the
                                              best available data.Ā </p>
                                            <p style="font-family:
                                              -apple-system, system-ui,
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                                              "Segoe UI",
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                                              Ubuntu, Cantarell,
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                                              padding: 0; color:
                                              #101517; margin-bottom:
                                              24px;">Previous counts of
                                              people in solitary have
                                              been significantly lower
                                              largely because they have
                                              been less complete,
                                              counting only people in
                                              prisons (not jails), and
                                              in some cases, only those
                                              held in solitary for 15
                                              days or more. Clearly,
                                              such calculations provided
                                              only a partial picture—but
                                              in the absence of any
                                              better or more complete
                                              data, they were widely
                                              cited by journalists,
                                              scholars, and
                                              policymakers.</p>
                                            <p style="font-family:
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                                              padding: 0; color:
                                              #101517; margin-bottom:
                                              24px;">Given this, we
                                              realize that it could be
                                              months or years before our
                                              more accurate number
                                              becomes the new standard
                                              (and even longer until we
                                              have a figure that
                                              includes the unknown
                                              number of people in
                                              solitary in juvenile or
                                              immigration facilities).
                                              The fact that governments
                                              on all levels permit this
                                              form of torture to take
                                              place without even
                                              requiring that its victims
                                              be counted is just one of
                                              the travesties inherent in
                                              the way solitary
                                              confinement is practiced
                                              in this country.</p>
                                            <p style="font-family:
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                                              #101517; margin-bottom:
                                              24px;">At the same time,
                                              we’re plagued by the
                                              uncertainty that the new
                                              number alone will make
                                              much of a difference. Will
                                              it matter to know that
                                              over 122,000 people are
                                              being tortured in solitary
                                              confinement, rather than
                                              80,000, or 50,000? Will
                                              the pure shock value
                                              provided by the enormity
                                              of the number—which, as
                                              our colleagues at Unlock
                                              the Box have pointed out,
                                              is more than the total
                                              population of Berkeley or
                                              Ann Arbor—jolt more people
                                              into action?</p>
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                                              "Segoe UI",
                                              Roboto, Oxygen-Sans,
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                                              #101517; margin-bottom:
                                              24px;">We have to believe
                                              that accuracy matters—that
                                              the truth matters. And
                                              even more, we believe that
                                              every person in solitary
                                              confinement is a suffering
                                              human soul who, at the
                                              very least, deserves to be
                                              counted.Ā </p>
                                            <p style="font-family:
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                                              "Segoe UI",
                                              Roboto, Oxygen-Sans,
                                              Ubuntu, Cantarell,
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                                              24px;">One of those people
                                              was Kalief Browder, who
                                              endured more than two
                                              years of solitary
                                              confinement on Rikers
                                              Island while he was still
                                              a child and legally
                                              innocent, and who died by
                                              suicide after being (in
                                              his own words) ā€œmentally
                                              scarredā€ by his
                                              experience. Because he was
                                              held in solitary in a
                                              local jail rather than a
                                              state or federal prison,
                                              Kalief would not have been
                                              counted.</p>
                                            <p style="font-family:
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                                              "Segoe UI",
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                                              Ubuntu, Cantarell,
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                                              #101517; margin-bottom:
                                              24px;">Another was
                                              Benjamin Van Zandt, who
                                              had endured time in
                                              solitary confinement as
                                              well as abuse and threats
                                              from guards, and who died
                                              by suicide at the age of
                                              21 on the first night
                                              after he was sentenced to
                                              another 30 days in
                                              solitary. Because he had
                                              not been in solitary for
                                              15 days or more, Ben might
                                              not have been counted.</p>
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                                              "Segoe UI",
                                              Roboto, Oxygen-Sans,
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                                              "Helvetica
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                                              0; line-height: 1.7;
                                              padding: 0; color:
                                              #101517; margin-bottom:
                                              24px;">Their stories are
                                              reminders of what our
                                              number means in human
                                              terms. It means that more
                                              than 122,000 people—one of
                                              every 17 incarcerated
                                              Americans—are being held
                                              in conditions that
                                              constitute torture. It
                                              means that as I write—and
                                              as you read—each of these
                                              individuals is suffering
                                              alone, being put at
                                              serious risk of
                                              psychological,
                                              neurological, and physical
                                              damage, as well as
                                              self-harm and suicide.Ā </p>
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                                              24px;">Making sure that
                                              all the Kaliefs and Bens
                                              and others are counted is
                                              just one way to
                                              acknowledge and bear
                                              witness to their
                                              experience. Telling their
                                              individual human
                                              stories—and encouraging
                                              people in solitary to tell
                                              their own stories—is
                                              another way.Ā </p>
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                                              important thing we can do
                                              for all of them is to
                                              fight to reduce the number
                                              of people in solitary
                                              confinement—and to keep on
                                              fighting until solitary is
                                              a thing of the past, and
                                              there is no one left to
                                              count.</p>
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