A CT senator sought to go into solitary confinement. Here’s what he has to say

A CT senator sought to go into solitary confinement. Here’s what he has to say

State Sen. Saud Anwar, co-chair of the state’s Public Health Committee, recently made a rare request to the state Department of Correction. Listening to concerns from the community about the long-term negative implications of solitary confinement, Anwar wanted to experience it himself, asking to be incarcerated in the Garner Correctional Institution for 72 hours. “We know that  trauma that an individual endures from solitary confinement can be a…