This article focuses on the extreme practices of solitary confinement that maximize isolation and the sensory deprivation of prisoners in the United States. While on record the largest prisoner hunger strike, was a result of a protest to California's use of indefinite solitary confinement and the cruel punishment it ensued. Although the strikers failed to reach their central goals they did bring focus nationally and internationally to the troubling aspects of a failing prison system. The hunger strike involved approximately thirty thousand prisoners and lasted a period of sixty days ending on September 5, 2013. At which time protest leaders released a statement “ Our goal remains: Force the powers that be to end their torture policies and
