Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130803:00:26:00
It's a practice that has been criticized almost universally by human rights and civil liberties groups across the country. a 2011 u.n. report found that solitary confinement can amount to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment and even torture. and there is no state whose solitary confinement practices are more under the microscope right now than california. where hundreds of prisoners are on hunger strike protesting, among other things, the state's infamous solitary confinement practices. according to officials there are 477 inmates in six prisons on hunger strike right now. tod...
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