Full House By any reasonable definition, solitary confinement is the sort of cruel and unusual punishment the constitution prescribes. Regardless of how anti-social or introverted you are, humans are pack animals by nature and contact with other humans and various other forms of mental stimulation to stay sane. The prolonged sensory deprivation of being placed in solitary in prisons can cause all sorts of mental problems in a fairly short amount of time, and prisons appear to be using COVID as a pretext for inflicting this kind of torture on inmates at will. Take for example Mossimo Giannulli, husband of Lori Loughlin who was given five months in prison for putting the wrong name on the bribe he gave USC to get his daughters accepted into the college that they didn’t even want or need to go to in the first place.