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AFSC seeking testimonies from men, women and children relating to extended isolation and torture

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The American Friends Service Committee Prison Watch Project is planning to update the Fall 2001 "Torture in US Prisons ? Evidence of US Human Rights Violations." We are seeking testimonies from men, women and children relating to the use of extended isolation and devices of torture (use of force, chemical and physical restraints, other living conditions, forced double celling in isolation, etc.). We will also be accepting drawings and photos. Our deadline is June 15th. We will only be able to acknowledge by form letter. Unless otherwise authorized the publication will use first name, last initial and facility only. Please send to Bonnie Kerness, AFSC, 89 Market St., 6th floor, Newark, NJ 07102. Please make this message available to people concerned with the prison system and send it to friends and loved ones in prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 04, 2010 (boomark / email).