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May be useful to distinguish btw disciplinary solitary confinement—a harsh practice where prisoners are deprived of all human contact for 23h/day—and housing a high profile prisoner in a private cell for his protection, which is what the story says Rikers will do for Manafort.
NYT ought to address this. There’s a thin argument for saying every prisoner without a cell mate is being held in solitary confinement, but that’s rly not a common usage. In addition, Manafort’s defense team had used the term misleadingly in this same way.
They’ve already dropped the term from the headline and lede, without noting the change. 
