In many high security American prisons, inmates are routinely kept in virtual isolation, fed in their cells, allowed out for only half an hour of exercise a day, sometimes denied a TV, a radio, or even decorations for their concrete walls - conditions which have been documented to drive many of them into states of serious psychosis.
Muchos miles de ellos están encerrados por ``terceros strikes'' de poca cuantía: crímenes menores relacionados con narcóticos, robo de autos, fraudes centaveros, latrocinios y manejar borracho (incluso los graffitis, con daños equivalentes a $400, que han sido reclasificados como felonía).