Sec. 2. Purposes
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The purposes of this Act are to— develop and implement national standards for the use of solitary confinement to ensure that it is used infrequently and only under extreme circumstances; establish a more humane and constitutionally sound practice of segregated detention or solitary confinement in correctional facilities; accelerate the development of best practices and make reforming solitary confinement a top priority in each correctional facility at the Federal and State levels; increase the available data and information on the incidence of solitary confinement, consequently improving the management and administration of correctional facilities; standardize the definitions used for collecting data on the incidence of solitary confinement; increase the accountability of correctional facility officials who fail to design and implement humane and constitutionally sound solitary confinement practices; protect the Eighth Amendment rights of inmates at correctional facilities; and reduce the costs that solitary confinement imposes on interstate commerce.