Second, being isolated from social interaction in a small room locked down for twenty-two to twenty-three hours a day is a prime example of cruel and unusual punishment. Cruel and unusual punishment is a “phrase describing punishment that is considered unacceptable due to the suffering, pain, or humiliation it inflicts on the person subjected to it.” Critiques say that,“solitary confinement is akin to torture, violating both international law and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.” Also, very similar words, "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,” appear in Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948. “Many become floridly psychotic, or so agitated that they engage in awful, grotesque behaviors: they cover themselves and their cells with feces, they mutilate themselves, they try to kill themselves.”…