This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.
The original was posted on /r/cfs by /u/m_seitz on 2025-01-27 08:08:00+00:00.
I just read an article about the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) complaining that Norwegian prisons sometimes isolate prisoners for more than 22 hours, and saying that "action needs to be taken to alleviate such a restrictive regime".
Apparently, 2 hours of meaningful human contact per day is seen as torture. More than 15 days of isolation is classified as "prolonged solitary confinement".
"Meaningful human contact" is defined by the Mandela Rules as: "... human contact to be face to face and direct (without physical barriers) and more than fleeting or incidental, enabling empathetic interpersonal communication."
To my utter surprise, YouTube videos don't count as human contact!!! 😱
There are many other groups of people who are isolated. Old people, and many with chronic illnesses other than ME. Still, reading that it is seen as inhumane to isolate prisoners for longer than 22 hours a day, while many of us experience 24 hours of isolation per day for most of the year ... damn!