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Solitary Confinement - Cruel and Inhuman
By: American Friends Service Committee
Posted: Mar 19 09
Witnessed: 1373 times
Regions: United States
Issues: Torture
Tags: corrections, criminal justice, human rights, isolation, prison, reform, solitary, stopmax, supermax, torture
On any given day, as many as 200,000 men and women are locked in solitary in U.S. prisons - alone for 23 hours a day. This video captures the visceral experience and long term impact of that isolation. For more information about AFSC's campaign to stop torture in prison, visit: www.stopmax.org
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