1. Is long-term solitary confinement torture? →

    One of the paradoxes of solitary confinement is that, as starved as people become for companionship, the experience typically leaves them unfit for social interaction. Once, Dellelo was allowed to have an in-person meeting with his lawyer, and he simply couldn’t handle it. After so many months in which his primary human contact had been an occasional phone call or brief conversations with an inmate down the tier, shouted through steel doors at the top of their lungs, he found himself unable to carry on a face-to-face conversation.

    This is what’s happening to Bradley manning in our country right now. Go USA

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  1. tumbleflakes reblogged this from the-feature and added:
    This is very interesting. Particularly good to read that we’re doing something right here in the UK!
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    1) This is extremely interesting 2) I love having time to read things that aren’t notes or textbooks 3) I drive past the...
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    This was a fascinating read.
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    This is what’s happening to Bradley manning in our country right now. Go USA
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    The real question is how is it not torture and how is it not a violation of the 8th Amendment? Ignoring the...
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    The prison system in the US today is really one of the most disgusting untold scandals of our time. I’m particularly...
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