THE ISOLATION THAT FORGED ME
THE UNITED NATIONS considers solitary confinement for more than 15 days torture. It was my condition for 18 consecutive years.
Imagine that you had been sentenced to social death, life without parole, in a space nine feet by seven—the size of a freight elevator—where for 22 to 24 hours a day you are trapped; where in a deadly daily routine you sleep, wake up, shit, piss, eat—food slipped through a slot as if you were an animal; where you are
