A bipartisan group of lawmakers gathered on Capitol Hill last week for the first congressional hearing on solitary confinement. Richard Killmer, executive director of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, joined other religious leaders to urge Congress to end the practice. Killmer is a minister of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

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