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Solitary Watch

By Steve Hall

That's the name of a new blog, subtitled, "News from a Nation in Lockdown."  From the site's About section:This Solitary Watch News site is part of an emerging project called Solitary Watch, which will serve as the first centralized source of information on solitary confinement in the United States. The full Solitary Watch web site will be launched in the spring of 2010.Many Americans have recoiled from the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, and polls show that a clear majority oppose the use of torture under any circumstances, even on foreign terrorism suspects. Yet conditions of confinement in U.S. prisons and jails that transgress the boundaries of humane treatment have produced little outcry...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 08, 2010 (boomark / email).