According to reports, during the Covid-19 peak in April, there was a 500 percent increase in solitary confinement. Distinct from medical isolation, solitary confinement usually involves restrictions and reduced access to resources such as TV. This push to use solitary confinement to reduce the spread of COVID-19 likely resulted in prisoners not reporting symptoms and may have actually increased COVID-19 transmission.

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