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Solitary Confinement Subject of Unprecedented Congressional Hearing
by Alex Friedmann1
It’s an awful thing, solitary. It crushes your spirit and weakens your resistance more effectively than any other form of mistreatment.
— U.S. Senator John McCain, on his treatment as a P.O.W.2
On June 19, 2012, the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, ...
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