Denise Short, 21, pleaded for help. Instead, she was sent to solitary confinement, where she died by suicide.
Despite a legion of evidence of its harms, solitary confinement was the common factor in nearly 75% of suicides in Mississippi prisons since 2015.
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An investigation found there were at least 47 suicides in solitary confinement in Mississippi, where cries for mental health care were met with isolation and punishment.
