John Oliver condemned the continued use of solitary confinement in American prisons on the latest episode of Last Week Tonight. The incarceration method, used any given day on 50,000 inmates in the US (almost definitely an undercount, given poor data collection), keeps people in a solitary cell that’s roughly 6ft by 9ft. “Which is way too small for a person to be stuck in for days, weeks, months or even years on end,” the HBO host said on Sunday evening.
