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DESCRIPTION:Long-term solitary confinement is a form of torture used by prison 
 officials to punish inmates and isolate political dissidents.  Not only is 
 long-term solitary confinement practiced by repressive regimes throughout 
 the world, it has also become shockingly widespread in the United States.  
 Come hear the stories of people who survived this torturous ordeal and 
 learn about the struggle to bring this cruel and unusual form of punishment 
 to an end.\n\nSpeakers:\n\nSarah Shourd:\nSarah is an author and 
 Contributing Editor at Solitary Watch. She was living in Damascus, 
 Syria—working as a journalist and teaching for the Iraqi Student 
 Project—when she was captured by Iranian forces somewhere along the 
 unmarked border between Iran and Iraq in July ’09 in semi-autonomous 
 Iraqi Kurdistan. Sarah was held as a political hostage in solitary 
 confinement for 410 days, then spent the year following her release 
 campaigning for the release of her friend Josh Fattal and now-husband Shane 
 Bauer. She’s written for The New York Times, CNN, Newsweek's Daily Beast 
 and has a blog on Huffington Post.  Her memoir *A Sliver of Light: Three 
 Americans Imprisoned in Iran—*co-authored by Shane Bauer and Josh 
 Fattal—will be published by Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt in March 2014.   
 Sarahshourd.com\n\nShane Bauer\nShane is an investigative journalist and 
 author based in Oakland, CA. From 2009-2011 Shane was held hostage in Iran 
 with his now-wife Sarah Shourd and friend Josh Fattal. Last year, Shane 
 investigated California's use of indefinite solitary confinement in an 
 award-winning\nMother Jones cover story .  He is currently working on other 
 stories related to the US criminal justice system.\n\nBo Brown:\nBo is a 
 former political prisoner due to her involvement in The George Jackson 
 Brigade, a revolutionary cell that was active in the Pacific North West in 
 the 1970s. Bo now lives in Oakland and has been active supporting the 
 hunger strikers in the California prisons.  She is part of the Prison 
 Activist Resource Center in Oakland, CA.  \n\nKristian Williams:\nKristian 
 is an author and activist who has researched torture extensively and 
 written about it in two of his books, Hurt: Notes on Torture in a Modern 
 Democracy, and American Methods.  His first book, Our Enemies in Blue: 
 Police and Power in America, has been re-released by South End. His work on 
 policing and torture has also appeared in Counterpunch, New Politics, In 
 These Times, and in the collection Confrontations (Tarantula Publishing, 
 2007).  Kristian is also a volunteer with the Committee Against Political 
 Repression in Portland, OR.  \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/01/18744163.php
SUMMARY:Cruel and Unusual Punishment
LOCATION:the Sol Collective \n2574 21st St., Sacramento
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/01/18744163.php
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