After reading our post on Cañon City, Colorado, a reader called our attention to a piece on the Huffington Post by Anne-Marie Cusac called “Torture Is American.” As an investigative reporter for The Progressive, Cusac wrote about devices of torture in U.S. prisons, including Tasers, restraint chairs, and stun belts, as well as solitary confinement; she has […]
Iraq
Freed British Hostage Evokes Trauma of Solitary Confinement
Since the release of Peter Moore, the British IT consultant kidnapped in Iraq in 2007, accounts of his experience have highlighted the anguish of solitary confinement. As reported last week in the London Independent: Mr Moore’s release ended 31 months in captivity…The remains of three of the bodyguards snatched with him at the Iraqi finance ministry […]