Strike participants, their families, and advocacy groups reported that the leaders and organizers of the strike were punished with solitary confinement, loss of communication privileges, and prison transfers.[4][5][6]
Critics of solitary confinement regard the practice as a form of psychological torture with measurable physiological effects, particularly when the period of confinement is longer than a few weeks or is continued indefinitely.[92][93][94][75]
The United Nations Committee Against Torture cited use of solitary confinement in the United States as excessive and a violation of the Convention Against Torture in 2014.[95]
It followed the little-reported 2016 US Prison Strike
That was one of the contributing factors to my career switch as well; software engineers tend to be reactionary (anecdotally) and the only time you can get a response out of them is if they think the status quo is imperiled somehow.