There is a longstanding and serious debate over whether solitary confinement is, in and of itself, torture. Countless prisoners who've experienced it have said that isolation is worse than any form of physical torture. A new Amnesty report on isolation in California's prisons should make any rational person queasy…
A U.S. Senate subcommittee is holding hearings on the practice of solitary confinement in our nation's prisons. Here's what Anthony Graves, who spent 18 years in prison for murder before being exonerated, had to say about the practice:
Bradley Manning, the world's most famous WikiLeaker, will be moved from his deplorable conditions at Quantico to Fort Leavenworth. The Pentagon insists this is just a little inmate furniture rearranging, not a response to accusations of human rights violations. [NYT]
