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Solitary Confinement’s Invisible Scars

Loaded on Feb. 15, 2014 by Five Oman Mualimm-ak published in Prison Legal News February, 2014, page 48
Filed under: Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement. Location: New York.

I spent more than five years of my sentence in “the box,” for trivial violations. It’s time we saw this casual abuse for what it is: torture.

by Five Oman Mualimm-ak

As kids, many of us imagine having superpowers. An avid comic book reader, I often imagined being invisible. …

 

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