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- The US prison system is inhumane and the coronavirus pandemic exposes just how much it needs to be reformed.
- One way to start those reforms is to get rid of solitary confinement, which is barbaric and lends itself to the worst practices by prison officials.
- The World Health Organization, the United Nations and other international bodies have also recognized solitary confinement as significantly harmful and potentially fatal.
- We should start the reforms of our prison system by getting rid of solitary confinement,
- Ashish Prashar is a justice reform campaigner, who sits on the Board of Exodus Transitional Community.
- This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
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To anyone paying attention, it's become clear that the US prison system is inhumane and disproportionately affects the Black community. But even within this system, there is another tool that is making these inequities even worse.
Solitary confinement is the prison system's worst torture device, and it is used all too frequently. Most repugnant of all is the fact that the specter of COVID-19 is giving prison officials cover to more freely deploy solitary confinement tactics, laughingly in the name of safety.
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