Saturday, April 14, 2012

12-03-14 Solitary Confinement as Torture: California Inmates Ask the UN to Act


Cells in a US Supermax prison, where prisoners are held in solitary confinement in solid-walled, windowless cells 23 hours a day.

Comparing their conditions to a "living coffin," 400 California prisoners held in long-term or indefinite solitary confinement petitioned the United Nations Tuesday to intervene on behalf of all of the more than 4,000 prisoners similarly situated.
READ MORE:http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2012/04/09/solitary-confinement-as-torture-some-us-prisons-recognize-the-problem-as-california-inmates-ask-the-un-to-act/

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