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Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, And The Case Against Solitary Confinement, Francis X. Shen
Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, And The Case Against Solitary Confinement, Francis X. Shen
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Prolonged solitary confinement remains in widespread use in the United States despite many legal challenges. A difficulty when making the legal case against solitary confinement is proffering sufficiently systematic and precise evidence of the detrimental effects of the practice on inmates' mental health. Given this need for further evidence, this Article explores how neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI) might provide new evidence of the effects of solitary confinement on the human brain.
This Article argues that both neuroscience and AI are promising in their potential ability to present courts with new types of evidence on the effects of solitary confinement …