As two men in Louisiana complete 40 years in solitary confinement this month, the use of total isolation in US prisons is on the rise. What does this do to a prisoner's state of mind?
Robert King paces the front room of his small, one-storey house in Austin, Texas.
"I imagine I could put my cell inside this room about six times," he says. "Probably more."
For 29 years Robert King occupied a cell nine feet by six - just under three metres by two - for at least 23 hours a day.
He spent most of his time incarcerated in one of the toughest prisons in the United States - Louisiana State Penitentiary.
- Forty years in solitary confinement and counting
- Forty years in solitary confinement and counting
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