Is long-term solitary confinement torture?

[houseofcantor]

So, we create our own modern Siberia, and let them have their own society somewhere out of Barrow. Not sure Alaska's population, indigenous or otherwise, would like that at all. Escapees, vehicles, etc. not likely workable at all.

You're not thinking of the electronic fence and the necklace... and exploding heads.

Let's say you take a spot in Nevada where the government owns all the land, you draw three concentric circles, where the outside in minimum security whose primary function is to keep the middle in the middle. The middle keeps the high in the high, and the high televises gladiator games. Workable, feasible, economically self sustaining. One prison complex for the entire country. Let the inmates run the asylum. What's the problem? Presumption of innocence. Ethical standard. Empathy.