"Given how it affects the brain, solitary is akin to being “buried alive,” according to some accounts. That’s not what Manafort experienced. But Moochie did."
The Marshall Project
July 30, 2018
Read MoreEven if an inmate's sentence is not oppressively long, their treatment while incarcerated can still constitute subhuman treatment. Prisons are not medical facilities, but they regularly are forced to deal with mental health problems and care for elderly and terminally ill inmates. Food, if it's even edible, usually lacks enough nutrition for inmates' health to not deteriorate. Plus, with a lack of opportunities to see family, read, or gain skill sets, inmates are placed in buildings which lack any resemblance of the civilized world.
"Given how it affects the brain, solitary is akin to being “buried alive,” according to some accounts. That’s not what Manafort experienced. But Moochie did."
The Marshall Project
July 30, 2018
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