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THIS! Almost all inmates are illegally kept in functional solitary and/or unconstitutional conditions. 30% of my long term facility was classified 'short term housing' because they were not constitutionally allowed to keep people in those cells longer than 3 months due to the long term psychological damage of such small spaces. Dudes had been in their cells 10 years. One guy almost won a case about it, but they just moved him and boom, he no longer had standing for his court case, everything dropped, and no court following saying 'hey we found that this guy was in unconstitutional conditions maybe we should check things out'. Nope, just dropped. Another fun example, the US Courts have ruled that lights on all night preventing sleep is torture. They have a more recent finding that it isn't torture if it is determined it is needed for safety. All the effects of not sleeping for 4 years were totally undone once I learned it was for safety and it wasn't torture.