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| The Inhumanity of Solitary Confinement |
| By nytimes.com - Colin Dayan (Op-Ed, July 18) |
| Published: 08/08/2011 |
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Mr. Dayan vividly captures the cruelty of long-term solitary or “supermax” confinement, which has increasingly become business as usual in American prisons. Supermax units like the one at Pelican Bay State Prison in California cost two to three times as much to build and operate as conventional prisons, and prisoners released directly to the community from solitary are more likely to commit more crimes than comparable prisoners released from general prison populations. Read More. |
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