They were in confinement until they staged that bullshyt hunger strike to get out of the SHU. There has been a surge in violence because now you have more active gang members on the yard and they reduced the use of SHU.
that's why you send em to cecot. let em try to hunger strike there and see what happens. no communication with the outside, no visits ever. if you're doing life with no parole on a violent offense and you're still in prison committing acts of violence then you should be shipped out.
a news clip of about 30 violent lifers being shuttled from the bus in shackles bent over at the waist and then put into 200 man cells where the lights never go out, there's never visitation, no tv, no phone, no cards, no nothing but a hole in the floor for your bathroom and a couple of big containers of water that everyone has to use would do more to curb violence out on the streets and behind bars than anything else they could possibly think of. they need to take the 10 worst offenders from the mexican mafia, the abn, and the Black gangs and ship em out forever. then watch how fast everyone on both the outside and the inside straightens the fukk up.