Photo: Ramzi Yousef
After 15 Years In Solitary, Convicted Terrorist Pleads For Contact With Others -- L.A. Times
Ramzi Yousef, convicted in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, asks a judge to move him into a more open prison environment. Some agree his treatment is unconstitutional.
WASHINGTON — Ramzi Yousef, inmate No. 03911 at a federal "supermax" penitentiary, is serving life with no parole plus 240 years in a 7-by-11-foot cell with no bars and one small high window, far from other inmates, prison staff and the world beyond the fortress deep in the Colorado Rockies.
He has been there for 15 years, in nearly 24-hour solitary confinement at the prison they call the "Fortress in the Rockies." Even his meals provide little relief, with the food trays shoved by unseen guards through a sally port between two steel doors. The only other inmate within shouting range has killed others in prison.
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My Comment: I am willing to wager that it is only going to be a matter of time before some will be calling this torture.
3 comments:
Solitary confinement is torture. One's own mind can become the most painful weapon.
Amnesty International has long said that No Human Contact is torture
Thank you Investor and polizeros for your comments. It looks like I am behind the curve on this one.
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