Strike participants, their families, and advocacy groups reported that the leaders and organizers of the strike were punished with solitary confinement, loss of communication privileges, and prison transfers.[4][5][6]

Solitary Confinement

Critics of solitary confinement regard the practice as a form of psychological torture with measurable physiological effects, particularly when the period of confinement is longer than a few weeks or is continued indefinitely.[92][93][94][75]

The United Nations Committee Against Torture cited use of solitary confinement in the United States as excessive and a violation of the Convention Against Torture in 2014.[95]

It followed the little-reported 2016 US Prison Strike

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      I’ve heard similar numbers tossed around. I’m not sure how consistently people need to be showing up for change to happen. It seems a lot of what we’re seeing now is brief protests, and then back to business as usual (pun intended)