Hellhole
The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture?
One of the paradoxes of solitary confinement is that, as starved as people become for companionship, the experience typically leaves them unfit for social interaction. Once, Dellelo was allowed to have an in-person meeting with his lawyer, and he simply couldn’t handle it. After so many months in which his primary human contact had been an occasional phone call or brief conversations with an inmate down the tier, shouted through steel doors at the top of ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via New Yorker, Shakthi Sivanathan (t)
