Scott Kaufman — U.N. torture investigator seeks access to California’s prison isolation units (via Raw Story )

U.N. torture investigator seeks access to California’s prison isolation units (via Raw Story )

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…

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