How INMATES Eat, Sleep & Survive 23 Hours a Day Locked in a Supermax Cell

How INMATES Eat, Sleep & Survive 23 Hours a Day Locked in a Supermax Cell Seven feet wide. Twelve feet long. Everything inside is poured concrete. The bed is a concrete slab. The desk is a concrete shelf. The stool is a concrete block that grows out of the floor. The toilet, the sink and the shower are stainless steel, bolted into the wall, and the shower runs on a timer so no one can flood the room. There is one window. It is about four inches wide. In the door, there is a slot. Three times a day, a tray comes through it. Nothing else does. The man inside this room will spend 23 hours here today. Tomorrow, he will do it again. And the day after that. In some cases, for years. In a few cases, for decades. Outside, the seasons change. In here, the light is controlled by someone he will never meet. This is how inmates eat, sleep, and survive 23 hours a day locked in a supermax cell. And why the most secure prisons in America may be sending some of their most dangerous men back into the world worse than they arrived.