Hey Look! A Onesie With a Joke About Solitary Confinement On It. Hilarious, Amirite?

So
this exists, in the gift shop of Washington, D.C.’s
Crime Museum:

Because you know what’s a laugh-a-minute? Confining human beings
in a bathroom-sized cell for months at a time with extremely
limited human interaction! Wocka wocka!

For $16, you can own this “Best selling infant onesie!!” bearing
the words “I just spent 9 months in solitary!” which is “made of
100% preshrunk cotton” and “Awesome for our newest additions!” As a
bonus, that money will go to a museum that glorifies a rotating cast of
law enforcement officers and scolds visitors for
participating in black markets.

Not to be a humorless jerk, but here I go: The overuse and abuse
of solitary confinement is a wretched, epidemic problem in United
States prisons. The New York Civil Liberties Union
thinks it’s unconstitutional and
refers to the cells as “human kennels.” One inmate called
it “a
fate worse than death.” George
Will thinks it’s torture. Reason TV agrees.

And just in case the joke didn’t hit close enough to home,
here’s a Reason TV documentary about what life is like for children in
solitary. Happy Friday!