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For the Obama administration to change its stance on solitary confinement

Created by L.S. on November 18, 2014

Every year thousands of people in the care of the United States prison system experience a breach of human rights when they are a ripped out of their daily routine and kept in solitary confinement for the smallest breaches of prison regulations. Most prisoners go through this experience in a small space with no natural light and a solid door for 23 hours a day, limited to no contact with other human beings, inadequate medical and mental health care, and in some cases physical torture. If you thought regular criminals were terrifying imagine a criminal after being forced to sit in a perpetually lit with no company other then their own thoughts for sometimes years on end. The fact that this punishment exists and is so frequently used is quite frankly unacceptable.

Civil Rights & Equality
Criminal Justice Reform
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