Interesting standards applied to prisoners, who are protected from torture. That includes prisoners held in territories of the United States. There is Congressional interest in protecting prisoners in state and US custody. There is no concern from local, state or US authorities, or the $2 billion taxpayer funded human services industry of Massachusetts, of a 40-year program of torture by police, crime families, students and employees of the President and Fellows of Harvard College. They disturb the sleep of a 70-year-old white law abiding male who they say has a disability. FBI employees broadcast character assassination for 40 years, while local government employees shun the same person isolating him further. Torture? What torture? I don't got to obey any laws on torture. I'm employed by Harvard University, the FBI and Cambridge City government.
[From article]
Federal law on torture prohibits conduct “specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering.”
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Mass incarceration is expensive (California spends almost twice as much on prisons as on universities) and solitary confinement costs, on average, three times as much per inmate as in normal prisons. And remember: Most persons now in solitary confinement will someday be back on America’s streets, some of them rendered psychotic by what are called correctional institutions.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will022113.php3#.UTDIkN00i6Z
Jewish World Review
Alone and suffering: Solitary confinement is its own form of torture
By George Will
February 21, 2013
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