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Cruel and usual: US solitary confinement As incarceration rates explode in the US, thousands are placed in solitary confinement, often without cause.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Cruel and usual: US solitary confinement As incarceration rates explode in the US, thousands are placed in solitary confinement, often without cause. James Ridgeway and Jean Casella 19 Mar 2011 09:51 Features: Al Jeezera English The US does not keep data on the number of inmates in solitary confinement [GALLO/GETTY] The spectre of Bradley Manning lying naked and alone in a tiny cell at the Quantico Marine Base, less than 50 miles from Washington, DC, conjures up images of an American Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib, where isolation and deprivation have been raised to the level of torture. In fact, the accused Wikileaker, now in his tenth month of solitary confinement, is far from alone in his plight. Every day in the US, tens of thousands of prisoners languish in "the hole"...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 21, 2011 (boomark / email).