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Americans Face Guantanamo-Like Torture Everyday in a Super-Max Prison Near You By Lance Tapley, Boston Review

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Americans Face Guantanamo-Like Torture Everyday in a Super-Max Prison Near You By Lance Tapley, Boston Review Posted on January 18, 2011, Printed on January 19, 2011 http://www.alternet.org/story/149233/ Editor's Note: Courageous WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning is reportedly suffering some of the same horrible experiences detailed in the article below, including 23 hours a day of solitary confinement, which has been labeled torture by numerous prison and psychological experts. ?They beat the shit out of you,? Mike James said, hunched near the smeared plexiglass separating us. He was talking about the cell ?extractions? he?d endured at the hands of the supermax-unit guards at the Maine State Prison. ?They push you, knee you, poke you,? he said, his voice faint but ardent through the speaker...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 19, 2011 (boomark / email).