Companionship or Death: The Torture of Solitary Confinement
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Posted 09.06.2012
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Religion
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On any given day in the United States, 80,000 prisoners are held in some form of isolation or solitary confinement. Many prisoners and human rights activists consider this a form of psychological torture -- torture, in our own prisons, in our own country.
