9 comments on Wasted - Solitary Torture - Solitary Torture (CDr)

1. The CSC is a collection of small isolation units within the high security prison estate used to psychologically torture and dehumanize those prisoners that have most embarrassed the prison service, or endangered the cult who call themselves the Prison Officers Association (POA).

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2. Jul 10,  · In the final analysis, torture must be defined by the effects it has on its victims. And no one who has been confined to these indefinite torture units for any length of time, either single or double celled, has escaped the psychological and physical devastation of the torture unit.” Todd Ashker, 50, Pelican Bay SHU. Incarcerated since

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3. Sep 23,  · U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been sentenced to 14 days in solitary confinement — punishment the U.N. recognizes as torture .

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4. We have wasted away here in solitary confinement while our families suffer the same psychological torture, and many have already passed on. So those five core demands are not for beanie caps or jackets, which the PBSP officials cruelly kept from us deliberately while allowing us to go to the freezing concrete yard nine months out of the year.

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5. Throughout , CDCr was forced to release approximately 2, prisoners from indefinite solitary confinement in the SHUs. This victory came as a result of the heroic efforts of the organizers from the Pelican Bay SHU and the 30, participants of the 20California Prisoner Hunger Strikes. These hunger strikes propelled the Ashker v.

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6. Solitary Is Torture! By Jason Walker, Contributing Writer. After spending over five years in solitary confinement, I have finally come to realize that solitary confinement is known torture — and the prisoners aren’t the only ones who know this. There have been extensive studies that have shown that lengthy periods of isolation can cause a.

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7. Aug 26,  · The torture of solitary confinement must stop! Tens of thousands of prisoners languishing in U.S. custody from Guantanamo Bay to California, from Virginia to Oregon and Washington State have staged massive hunger strikes in protest of solitary confinement .

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8. Mar 05,  · The U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment maintains that solitary should be abolished for vulnerable populations—such as youth, people with mental illness, and LGBTQ individuals—and used only in extraordinary and brief circumstances for anyone else.

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9. It is very important that you all clearly understand the depth of human torture to which I was subjected for plus years by CDCr and CCPOA.* The torture was directed at me and similarly situated women and men prisoners held in Cali­fornia’s solitary confinement locations throughout CDCr, with the approval and sanc­tioning of California governors, CDCr secretaries and directors, attorneys.

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