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Virginia’s prisons have been fighting allegations that they callously lock away prisoners for years in solitary confinement.

Twenty-three hours a day, every day, for more than 3,000 days, South Carolina kept me in solitary confinement. I was a young man before I was sent to solitary — angry, untreated and unwell.

One hundred and thirty-five years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged the devastating effects of solitary confinement.