Hundreds of prisoners may participate in the protest beginning the first day of the legislative session. Texas often keeps prisoners in solitary for years or decades. Texas TexasPrisons TexasPrisoners HungerStrike TexasLegislature
argued the state’s overuse of solitary confinement was unnecessarily expensive to taxpayers, increased crime and prison violence, and caused thousands of mentally ill people to further deteriorate.
The TDCJ spokesperson said prisoners are assigned to solitary only after extensive reviews and are then reviewed regularly for reassignment to the general prison population. She added that prisoners are placed in solitary only if they are escape risks, have committed violent assaults or serious offenses in prison, or are confirmed members of dangerous prison gangs.
“You could be seen as a snitch for having to give up names,” Deitch said. “So there’s a lot of people who don’t want to go through that process because it’s dangerous and it’s extremely hard to get into.”
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