Torture does happen in N.J.'s prison, former inmates say. It's called solitary confinement.

“Under international law, more than 15 days of isolated confinement can be considered to be torture. Yet in New Jersey, some people are held in isolation for months. For 22-23 hours a day they are left only with a bed and their thoughts in a room that's typically no more than 8-by-10 feet. It causes lifelong trauma, increasing the risk that people become unnerved, irritable, erratic, depressed, irrational.“

New Jersey Star Ledger

April 14, 2019