" These measures are justified by the argument that the men held in solitary confinement must be so contained because of the wild dangerousness that is in their very natures. Only these drastic measures can contain the risk that these men embody. That logic, of course, does not track. We have now known for more than a century that the human behavior cited as the rationale for solitary confinement is consequence, not cause. "

― Christine Montross , Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration