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annm4peace

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2. if you read about the CDCR use of solitary confinement

Reply to Warpy (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 23, 2013, 10:37 PM

Aug 2013

you will realize how unjust it is. It is scientific proof that solitary confinement can cause mental illness very quickly.

GENEVA (23 August 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture, Juan E. Méndez, today urged the United States Government to abolish the use of prolonged or indefinite solitary confinement.

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Day 47: Calif. Prisoner on Hunger Strike Speaks Out [View all] annm4peace Aug 2013 OP

Force feeding will only torture these guys more. Warpy Aug 2013 #1

if you read about the CDCR use of solitary confinement annm4peace Aug 2013 #2

I agree. There are always alternatives Warpy Aug 2013 #10

Some of the Transcript from Democracy Now video annm4peace Aug 2013 #3

40 years in Solitary confinement.. is that Rehabilitation or Torture ? annm4peace Aug 2013 #4

My Friend Todd Ashker: History of a One-Sided Dialogue annm4peace Aug 2013 #5

from Al Jazeera annm4peace Aug 2013 #6

Isn't force feeding some kind of international human rights violation ? limpyhobbler Aug 2013 #7

Me too annm4peace Aug 2013 #8

it's like people in prison are invisible limpyhobbler Aug 2013 #9