Solitary confinement worsens mental illness. A Texas prison program meant to help can feel just as isolating.

Solitary confinement worsens mental illness. A Texas prison program meant to help can feel just as isolating.

For nearly two years, Geremy Sledge sat alone in his Texas prison cell about 23 hours a day. He was placed in solitary confinement — called administrative segregation by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice — after he stabbed another inmate he says stole from him in 2015.

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