STUCK IN SOLITARY D-Block meant solitary confinement without privileges or interaction with any others, save the shift guard who brought three meals a day to eat in the cells. Yet, there was good reason men already serving time in a max-security prison were assigned "Administrative Segregation" - they were incredibly violent, dangerous, or had tried to escape. Prison staff reviewed D-Block® prisoner profiles monthly to clear them for reléase back into the general population, but 9 times out of 10, they were denied. Most spent months, if not years, locked in one of these 32 cells, 23 hours a day with only one hour of exercise allowed in a solitary outdoor cage. Inmates could turn off the light bulb in their cell for some shut-eye, but The Walk's overhead lighting stayed on 24/7, and sleep was hard to come by. Lenient guards let prisoners hang bed sheets as barriers to help them rest, but mercy was rare in "the New Hole."