.AOC calls solitary confinement 'torture' after learning Manafort will be sent to jail in her district
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, pursuing the progressive agenda of ending solitary confinement in prisons, chose an unlikely symbol for the cause Wednesday: President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort.
“A prison sentence is not a license for gov torture and human rights violations,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “That’s what solitary confinement is.”NYT used the term solitary confinement, & that’s what I am commenting on. But according to the Times, high-profile inmates like Manafort are generally held in protective custody and isolated from the general population on Rikers, which holds around 7,500 detainees awaiting trial, or prisoners serving short sentences. The city plans to phase out the complex in the next decade.
Cell blocks in the infirmary command have eight cells and a day room with a television on each tier, the official said. The inmates are not locked in their cells during the day.
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