Solitary Voices
▻https://theintercept.com/2019/05/21/ice-solitary-confinement-immigration-detention
Thousands of Immigrants Suffer in Solitary Confinement in ICE Detention Dulce Rivera lived for the one hour a day she was allowed outside, to pace alone on a patch of concrete encased in metal fencing. They called it “the yard,” but it was really a metal cage. Still, it was far better than the misery she endured the other 23 hours a day, locked alone in a cell with no one to talk to and nothing to distract her from her increasingly dark thoughts. Rivera, a 36-year-old transgender woman (...)