Lisa Guenther wrote this harrowing piece on solitary confinement, race and slavery for The Stone. They rejected it, so she wrote a new one, which they did publish, arguing that this widely used punishment (even, as she notes, for minor infractions) is a form of torture. Both are excellent.
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