Kids in Solitary Confinement: America's Official Child Abuse Thousands of teenagers, some as young as 14 or 15, are routinely subjected by US prisons to this psychological torture by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway Molly J said of her time in solitary confinement: "[I felt] doomed, like I was being banished … Like you have the plague or that you are the worst thing on earth. Like you are set apart [from] [...]