You can never have enough...

[Lilith7]

I did, and was suitably horrified by the cruelty of it. I know prison is supposed to be a punishment, but those in charge of that system should be ashamed of their inhumanity in allowing people to be treated like that. Solitary for 40 plus years? That is torture, pure and simple. There are better ways, they just are unwilling to spend the money on using them.

I  couldn't watch it & am glad I didn't. They're well aware that prolonged solitary confinement is legally defined as torture & know very well that its use causes mental illness  - yet some prisons continue to use it despite that. America is especially bad at using it throughout their prison system.

The confinement itself is the punishment & anything further is excessive. And they surely must be aware that other methods work far better - Bastoy island for example has been getting excellent results for years, & Norway has the lowest rate of recidivism in Europe. 

But perhaps prisons are large employers in other countries & that's all that matters.