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

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230. Countless qualified psychiatrists say it is

Perhaps you should try it out

My Night in Solitary

COLORADO SPRINGS — AT 6:45 p.m. on Jan. 23, I was delivered to a Colorado state penitentiary, where I was issued an inmate uniform and a mesh bag with my toiletries and bedding. My arms were handcuffed behind my back, my legs were shackled and I was deposited in Administrative Segregation — solitary confinement.

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First thing you notice is that it’s anything but quiet. You’re immersed in a drone of garbled noise — other inmates’ blaring TVs, distant conversations, shouted arguments. I couldn’t make sense of any of it, and was left feeling twitchy and paranoid. I kept waiting for the lights to turn off, to signal the end of the day. But the lights did not shut off. I began to count the small holes carved in the walls. Tiny grooves made by inmates who’d chipped away at the cell as the cell chipped away at them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/opinion/my-night-in-solitary.html

The research is clear. Those saying it isn't torture are on par with those denying climate change because the evidence is clear.