“Juan Mendez, the United Nation’s special monitor on torture, told the Los Angeles Times on Friday that he wanted access to California prisons in order to determine whether inmates held in solitary were having their rights protected.  He argued that ‘[w]e should have more justification’ for placing prisoners in isolated confinement, and that ‘[w]e should put the burden on the state that this is the proper way to do things, and we should all be a lot more skeptical.’  California has an estimated 10,000 inmates currently being held in isolation units, and most of them are there because of gang affiliations.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/20/u-n-torture-investigator-seeks-access-to-californias-prison-isolation-units/

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