Singularly barbaric

• Autores: Michael Bond
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3028, 2015, pág. 24
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Bond comments on the extreme case of solitary confinement in the US which highlights the appalling cruelty of the punishment. The recent US court order to free Albert Woodfox, held in solitary confinement in Louisiana for more than 40 years, might be a victory for justice. But it is also a reminder of the prevalence of this cruel practice in the US, in which inmates are shut away without human contact for 23 hours a day. Legal wrangles continue over the fate of Woodfox, accused with two other inmates of the killing of a guard at Angola jail in 1972--a conviction twice overturned. Collectively known as the Angola Three, their case became a focus for humanitarian campaigners