President Barack Obama said Monday he was moving to ban solitary confinement for juveniles and low-level offenders in federal prisons.
Writing in The Washington Post, Obama said the practice diminished the possibility that prisoners could be rehabilitated.
“The United States is a nation of second chances, but the experience of solitary confinement too often undercuts that second chance,” Obama wrote in his op-ed, adding the decision came after a review by the Justice Department.