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That's the title of a lengthy examination of the effects of solitary confinement in the March 30 issue of the New Yorker.  It's subtitled, "The United States holds tens of thousand of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture?."  It's written by Atul Guwande, a surgeon and a professor at Harvard.  Here are several brief excerpts of this must-read:Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others. We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people. Children provide the clearest demonstration of this fact, although it was slow to be accepted...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 25, 2009 (boomark / email).