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Three years after ICIJ’s ‘Solitary Voices,’ isolation still commonplace in US prisons and detention centers
During the heated 2020 presidential race, Joe Biden vowed to end solitary confinement in the United States. “No act can justify the inhumane treatment of an individual in the hands of the government,” he said. Two years later, detention advocates who once applauded Biden’s pledge could hardly be more disappointed. They say the Biden administration has taken no meaningful steps to limit the harmful practice and has made little indication that it plans to do so. “There continues to be a stunning level of inaction,” said Ellen Gallagher, a supervisor within the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Biden administration’s vast immigration detention system. “I’m not aware of any sys

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