Released from solitary: Landmark case must bring about prison reform in the US

We knew that America’s justice system, and in particular its prisons, was one of the least attractive aspects of the world’s richest civilisation. With the largest penal population on the planet, often serving in dangerous and neglected conditions, America’s network of federal and state penitentiaries sometimes calls into question the nation’s very claim to be a civilised nation, along with routine use of the electric chair and an insane attitude towards gun control.