United States of America: going around in circles

Conditions here are highly restrictive.

• We are not allowed:
  Face-to-face visits with family or friends. Visits are over a TV screen + intercom.
  Most personal property (e.g. clothing, art supplies, electric shavers, vitamins, food) allowed in general population.
  Yoga mats
  Stapled or hard-covered books/magazines, even if staples/covers are removed
  A view outside the prison from our cells, where we spend over 23 hours a day
  To choose who we go to rec (recreation) with.

• We are allowed:
  Four to eight phone calls per month. I have no one to call.
  Two-three visits per week. I have no visitors.
  Outside rec in a 20’x20’ cage, no more than two 75 minute periods per week.
  We own 13’’ TVs with basic channels
  Use of a computer - the screen is behind an armoured glass, twice a week, for 75 minutes.
  Correspondence education, if we can pay for it – scholarships, loans and grants are not allowed.
  To attend a mindfulness group, twice a month, where Buddhist volunteers discuss our lives and meditate with us; this is the only meaningful rehabilitative program here. They coerce us into filling out paperwork programs to try and leave seg (segregation), but they have nothing to do with why we’re on seg, and they seek to indoctrinate us in Conservative-Christian theory as to why we are in prison.