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The Guardian // World // Europe

Death of man in Indiana jail highlights cruelty of solitary confinement: ‘A national disgrace’

Saturday 12th July 2025, 1:00PM

Adam Bryant, 29, died on Christmas while confined in a solitary jail cell. Advocates say significant reforms are neededThrough the tinny reception on the jail’s phone lines, 29-year-old Adam Bryant told his mom he didn’t want to die.It was late 2022, and Bryant was incarcerated at Vigo county jail in Terre Haute, Indiana, a city roughly 75 miles west of Indianapolis. Bryant had been arrested for domestic battery on 8 December, and for most of the time between then and the 19 December phone call, he’d been unable to eat without vomiting. He had severe stomach pains, too, which only worsened when he was attacked and beaten. Some of his inmates had heard about his battery charge, and they wanted the ring Bryant was wearing. Continue reading...

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