Solitary confinement as it exists in the US today is cruel and unusual punishment by any reasonable measure. The core problem here is that the criminal justice

Solitary confinement as it exists in the US today is cruel and unusual punishment by any reasonable measure. The core problem here is that the criminal justice system is not about true justice, and it damned sure isn't about rehabilitation. It's about retribution. And that, frankly, is a barbaric notion of "justice" that our country should have left in the distant past. It's going to take a long long time to fix this problem.