christopher trotter would likely support such an idea.en in a windowless segregation cell at the wabash valley correctional facility in indiana for nearly a decade. trotter wrote about the experience. >> imagine for the last nine years, being entombed in a windowless cell. held under sensory deprivation in isolation from human contact. and the only human touch you feel is the unwanted touch of prison guards. the conditions are dehumanizing, demoralizing, and every day is a struggle just to keep your mental liberty and self-respect, which are the last two things they haven't taken from you. how long are you going to imagine that i don't exist? this is my life. >> trotter was originally convicted in the mid 1980s for petty theft and sentenced to four years at another state prison. but with only a few months left on his sentence, he became one of the ringleaders in a prison riot. one in which six officers were stabbed. four of them critically. two other officers and a counselor were held hostage for more than 15 hours. >> i was found guilty