Blog: CONSILIENCE PRODUCTIONS

From a recent article by Atul Gawande in The New Yorker: The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture? Thus begins this incredibly disturbing expose on the current prison situation here in the United States of America. In particular, it focuses on the horrendous use of solitary confinement in this country and how ineffective it really is: Recently, I met a man who had spent more than five years in isolation at a prison in the Boston suburb of Walpole, Massachusetts, not [...]