Click Here to Read: Hellhole: The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture? By Atul Gawander in The New Yorker in Macch 30, 2009 Issue.
P.O.W.s have reported that the simple experience of isolation is as much of an ordeal as any physical abuse they have suffered.
CREDITILLUSTRATION BY BRAD HOLLAN