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mk  ·  4200 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 30,000 California inmates begin hunger strike

Solitary confinement is brutal. Indefinite solitary confinement is cruel and unusual. Just as important as punishing someone for what they've done, is the what the punishment does to those applying it. These policies dehumanize us all.

Social order is not an end unto itself. It is the result of a healthy society. If social order is the goal, society will rot as we struggle to achieve it.