The US routinely flouts international law by subjecting convicts to “callous and dehumanizing” bouts of solitary confinement in its only federal high security prison, the rights group Amnesty International said. “You cannot overestimate the devastating impact long periods of solitary confinement can have on the mental and physical well-being of a prisoner,” said the right’s group’s regional director Erika Guevara-Rosas. “Such harsh treatment is happening as a daily practice in the US, and it is in breach of international law.”
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 06:43:11 +0000
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