Supermax Prisons

Prisoner Abuse in Wikileaks Case Puts Our Standards on Trial

Locke Bowman | Posted 06.19.2011

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Locke Bowman

The mistreatment of Private Manning is reprehensible. But what matters more is that the indignities and abuses he is enduring are merely commonplace.

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Reading The Pictures: Monsters of Gitmo

Michael Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Shaw

2009-06-02-gitmo20_06.jpg In the past weeks and days, new photos have been released of Gitmo prisoners.

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This Week in Magazines: Rahm Emanuel's Likability, the Truth about Yoga, Torture in America, Runners' Diets, and Affleck's Paparazzi Strategy

James Warren | Posted 05.25.2011

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James Warren

This week, Esquire tells us whether Rahm Emanuel is a tough S.O.B. or a "douchebag" and how Ben Affleck fends off paparazzi, and the New Yorker says whether 25,000 U.S. inmates in supermax isolation are victims of torture.

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