Colonizers intended mostly Black people to land in solitary confinement, and that’s exactly what’s happened
America’s first penitentiary was established in Philadelphia in 1790, and it introduced the nation’s first solitary confinement cells. America’s first penitentiary was established in Philadelphia in 1790, and this is where the nation’s first solitary confinement cells were introduced. The Walnut Street Prison opened a decade after the 1780 Abolition Act, which gradually emancipated enslaved people…
