Prisoners held in solitary confinement are more likely to end up back in prison and die prematurely, and the cost of solitary confinement is three times higher than that of the general prison population, a PBS study found. In 2020, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer raised concern about the overuse of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons, noting that his predecessor,

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