Critics question WA's progress reducing solitary confinement in state prisons

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Anthony Blankenship went into solitary confinement at the Pierce County Jail on suicide watch, despite not feeling suicidal.

That changed by the time he got out, just days later.

While in solitary confinement, he could hear people “breaking” in other rooms, and had nothing in his cell other than a smock and a mattress.

“Anytime someone is put into a solitary condition and left there without any sort of resources, any sort of opportunity for communication, we have to start asking ourselves, what is that going to do?” Blankenship said. “For me, what it did was it broke me.”

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/05/06/critics-question-was-progress-reducing-solitary-confinement-in-state-prisons/