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The Rev. Laura Markle Downton, director of the U.S. Prisons Policy and Program at the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, is pictured in a replica solitary confinement cell during the Ecumenical Advocacy Days event in 2015. (CNS/Courtesy Perisphere Media/Erin Schaff)
The Rev. Laura Markle Downton is pictured in a replica solitary confinement cell during the Ecumenical Advocacy Days event in 2015. (CNS/Courtesy Perisphere Media/Erin Schaff)