4 years ago
Solitary confinement is bad for the heart too
Solitary confinement does little to rehabilitate inmates, is extremely expensive (where the average per-cell cost is $75,000), and exacerbates health problems — yet the American prison system is over-reliant on solitary confinement. In fact, a 2018 report found that, 61,000 individuals were being held in solitary confinement across the US. While the living conditions in such units are known to be associated with adverse health outcomes, we still don’t understand the lifetime cardiovascular burden (i.e. the direct and indirect costs) associated with solitary confinement.
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