...What is perhaps most brutal about solitary is its stillness. In the box, there is no plot, no movement, and often no dialogue—just endless solitude. In 2014, Center for Constitutional Rights attorney Pardiss Kebriaei painted a picture of banal torture at ADX Florence, the federal super-max prison, for the Nation, describing the typical inmate as "a person sitting still in a small cell, slowly deteriorating in a modern prison on the outskirts of a small Colorado town."...

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