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"The Worst of the Worst: Supermax Torture in America"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this new piece from the Boston Review authored by investigative journalist Lance Tapley. The piece provides an important and disturbing view of supermax confinement in the United States.  Here are excerpts from a must-read: James?s story [of being beaten during cell 'extractions' he?d endured at the hands of the supermax-unit guards at the Maine State Prison] illustrates an irony in the negative reaction of many Americans to the mistreatment of ?war on terrorism? prisoners at Guantánamo.  To little public outcry, tens of thousands of American citizens are being held in equivalent or worse conditions in this country?s super-harsh, super-maximum security, solitary-confinement prisons, or in comparable units of traditional prisons...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 17, 2010 (boomark / email).