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Mass Torture in America: Notes from the Supermax Prisons

Loaded on Feb. 15, 2011 by Lance Tapley published in Prison Legal News February, 2011, page 1
Filed under: Totality of Conditions, Eighth Amendment, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Restraints, Prisoner Privileges, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Ad-Seg Hearings, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness). Location: United States of America.
“Exterminate all the brutes!”
– Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

“They beat the shit out of you,” said Mike James, 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 ...

 

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