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Texas Holds 1 in 41 Prisoners in Solitary Confinement

As of March 2024, Texas state prisoner Ricky Smith, 56, had spent over 30 years in solitary confinement. Though the state Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) calls it “security detention,” he is one of 3,141 state prisoners held alone in a cell about the size of a bathroom 23 hours ...

 

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