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The Worst of the Worst: Supermax Torture in America

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

" To little public outcry, tens of thousands of American citizens are being held in equivalent or worse conditions in this country?s super-harsh, super-maximum security, solitary-confinement prisons, or in comparable units of traditional prisons." The Worst of the Worst: Supermax Torture in America Lance Tapley The Boston Review NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2010 http://www.bostonreview.net/BR35.6/tapley.php ?They beat the shit out of you,? Mike James said, hunched near the smeared plexiglass separating us. He was talking about the cell ?extractions? he?d endured at the hands of the supermax-unit guards at the Maine State Prison. ?They push you, knee you, poke you,? he said, his voice faint but ardent through the speaker. ?They slam your head against the wall and drop you on the floor while you?re cuffed...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 18, 2010 (boomark / email).