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By Jean Casella | February 17, 2021

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prisoner testimonies

AFSC Seeks Stories of Isolation and Torture in U.S. Prisons

April 4, 2010 Jean Casella and James Ridgeway
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In 2001, the Prison Watch Project of the American Friends Service Committee published Torture in U.S. Prisons: Evidence of U.S. Human Rights Violations, a unique collection of first-hand testimonies from prisoners. (A pdf copyof is available here.)  Now, Prison Project coordinator Bonnie Kerness has put out a call for submissions for a new edition. AFSC, through its STOPMAX […]