Published on Mar 2, 2015 (4:46 min)
As
of 2013, there were 80,000 men and women in solitary confinement in the
United States, some of them as young as 14 years old. In this
illustrated op-ed video, artist Molly Crabapple explains the
psychological and physical trauma suffered by those forced to spend
22-24 hours a day alone — sometimes for arbitrary reasons, like reading
the wrong book, or having the wrong tattoo — in a grey, concrete box.
(According to the U.N. 15 days in solitary is torture.) “There is no
limit to how long someone can be held in solitary confinement,” says
Crabappple. “And very little evidence is needed to justify holding a
person in solitary indefinitely.”
