Interfaith activists call solitary confinement immoral, ineffective
c. 2015 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS) They’re small spaces—sometimes 7 feet wide, 12 feet long. And they’re where some inmates are held, sometimes for days, sometimes for decades.
Religious leaders across the country are speaking out against solitary confinement cells that they say should never be used by juveniles or the mentally ill and rarely by the general prison population.
