Legal challenges to solitary-confinement policies are working their way through the federal courts to the U.S. Supreme Court faster than one justice in particular may have anticipated.
On June 18, in a concurring opinion in Davis v. Ayala, Justice Anthony Kennedy signaled his concerns about the “terrible price” exacted by prolonged solitary confinement on prisoners’ mental and physical health, as well as the “many issues” that confinement presents.
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