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Torture in Our Own Backyards: The Fight Against Supermax Prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Torture in Our Own Backyards: The Fight Against Supermax Prisons By Jessica Pupovac, AlterNet Posted on March 24, 2008 Imagine living in an 8-by-12 prison cell, in solitary confinement, for eight years straight. Your entire world consists of a dank, cinder block room with a narrow window only three inches high, opening up to an outdoor cement cage, cynically dubbed, "the yard." If you're lucky, you spend one hour, five days a week in that outdoor cage, where you gaze up through a wire mesh roof and hope for a glimpse of the sun. If you talk back to the guards or act out in any way, you might only venture outside one precious hour per week. You go eight years without shaking a hand or experiencing any physical human contact. The prison guards bark orders and touch you only while wearing leather gloves, and then it's only to put you in full cuffs and shackles before escorting you to the cold showers, where they watch your every move...continue to full post

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