Hm, I don't know. That sounds plausible, but I think there would /at least/ have to be some changes. For example, some amount of checking on seems important f

Hm, I don't know. That sounds plausible, but I think there would /at least/ have to be some changes. For example, some amount of checking on seems important for medical safety. Perhaps not much, but some. The things I've heard about solitary seem to suggest that part of it is, as you suggest, lack of anything to do, and maybe that is most of it? I'm not sure. Would having information to study be enough to not alienate them from other people? I'm not sure it would be. How much human interaction is necessary? Would providing a source of news be expensive, and would it cause any problems? Would it help anything? So, I can see some advantages of your proposal, but I'm not sure whether it would be sufficiently safe . (Whether is is sufficiently unlikely to cause significant harm)