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Commentary: Prolonged solitary confinement is torture. The practice needs judicial oversight.

Por: Portland Press Herald Opinion May 10, 2023

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A Yale Law School report estimates that in 2021, in the United States were isolated in cells the size of a compact parking space for 22 or more hours each day for two weeks or more. That is a minimum of 330 hours of isolation with one- or two-hour breaks each day. In Texas, have served more than 10 years in solitary confinement, and an extraordinary 138 have served more than 20 years in isolation. That is torture. ABOUT THE AUTHOR David Stuart... + full article



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