Solitary confinement is where the fabric of justice has worn through. It is the place where everybody hurts and nobody heals. And when the toll of punishment’s punishment is seen in human and scientific terms, reform becomes a constitutional imperative.1
In Davis v. Ayala, 135 S. Ct. 2187, 2210 (2015), Justice Anthony Kennedy chastised the justice system for ignoring the near-death experience of solitary confinement and warned: