In case people don't have a good understanding of what a supermax is, it is torture.

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221. The United Nations has called American supermax prisons "inhumane and degrading"

In 1996, the United Nations sent a team to investigate human rights complaints about supermax prisons. While they were hesitant to use the word "torture" against the United States, their report slammed the United States and made it abundantly clear that the UN committee thought that the prisons should be closed. A 2011 New York Bar comprehensive study determined that supermax prisons constitute torture under international law and cruel & unusual punishment per the U.S. Constitution. Amnesty International calls them torture. Human Rights Watch calls them torture. The ACLU calls them torture.

The design concept behind most supermax prisons isn't containment, but sensory deprivation. Sensory deprivation has long been defined as a form of mental torture, and is illegal under both the U.S. constitution and international law.

It is not histrionic nonsense to call it torture, and it has been identified as such by major and respected institutions around the world. Only bloodthirsty American sheep with their misguided idea that "suffering is justice" seem to disagree with that. Of course, this is the same country that is OK with waterboarding and Gitmo, so no real surprises there.