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Torture in Our Own Backyards: The Fight Against Supermax Prisons

By Jessica Pupovac, AlterNet. Posted March 24, 2008.


In supermax prisons, 23 hours a day of solitary confinement is the norm. How did our prison system become so cruel?
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Jessica Pupovac is an adult educator and independent journalist living in Chicago.

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