Wednesday, July 10, 2013

I Thought Solitary Confinement in Iran Was Bad -- Then I Went Inside America's Prisons

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34835.htm

LONG...BUT A MUST READ ARTICLE

Shane Bauer was one of the three American hikers imprisoned in Iran after being apprehended on the Iraqi border in 2009. He spent 26 months in Tehran's Evin Prison, 4 of them in solitary. Bauer is winner of the 2013 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism for the article below, his special investigation into solitary confinement. The winning feature was published in Mother Jones and supported by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute

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