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From Solitary Watch: On Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement, and Selective Outrage

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

On Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement, and Selective Outrage January 2, 2011 by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway Solitary Watch For the past few weeks, progressive online media sources have been alive with outrage against the conditions in which accused Wikileaker Bradley Manning is being held. Manning (as we first noted on Solitary Watch back in July) is in 23-hour-a-day solitary confinement at a Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia, denied sunlight, exercise, possessions, and all but the most limited contact with family and friends. He has now been in isolation for more than seven months. The cruel and inhuman conditions of his detention, first widely publicized by Glenn Greenwald on Salon and expanded upon by others, are now being discussed, lamented, and protested throughout the progressive blogosphere (ourselves included)...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 02, 2011 (boomark / email).