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Free Speech Radio News Report on StopMax Conference

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Free Speech Radio News Report on StopMax Conference An estimated 20,000 people in the United States live in concrete cells, 6 foot by twelve foot wide for 23 hours a day. With their lives on lockdown, these prisoners are deprived of educational programs, adequate physical and mental health services and have little contact with their families or other inmates. Denouncing these conditions as human rights violations and utterly failed policy, hundreds of people gathered in Philadelphia at the Stop Max Conference to put an end to Solitary Confinement. Andalusia Knoll reports from the conference. http://www.fsrn.org/content/solitary-confinement-disputed/2473

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 18, 2008 (boomark / email).