Name: 【TED】勞拉-羅夫納。隔離監禁中的人們會發生什麼（勞拉-羅夫納：隔離監禁中的人們會發生什麼？ (【TED】Laura Rovner: What happens to people in solitary confinement (What happens to people in solitary confinement | Laura Rovner))
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The drive through the world's most secure prison is beautiful.

The federal government's only supermax prison, known as ADX,

ADX looks like a newish suburban middle school.

there's big windows and clear views of the mountains;

and a polite front-desk attendant with a kiosk selling travel mugs.

On the wall is a large plaque that reads,

"The best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard

Just past it is a huge framed photo of Alcatraz.

And down the stairs, at the end of a long hallway,

I work on cases involving the constitutional rights of prisoners.

Now, people have differing views about prisoners' rights.

But there's something more people can agree on:

The US government says it doesn't use torture,

and we condemn other countries, like Iran and North Korea,

But some people think the so-called worst of the worst deserve it:

terrorists, mass murderers, the really "bad" people.

Now I personally believe that no one deserves to be tortured

there's a few things I need you to understand

First, we do torture people here in America,

It's done in our names, using our tax dollars,

we're undermining the core values of our justice system.

ADX has nearly perfected solitary confinement.

alone in a cell the size of a small bathroom.

Virtually every aspect of his life occurs in that cell.

which he does within an arm's reach of his toilet,

Correctional officers push food trays through slots in the doors

and take the men to solitary exercise cages

that are referred to by prisoners and staff alike,

They can't see the nearby mountains or any trees --

"nothing living, not so much as a blade of grass,"

Some people report that after years of not looking at anything

that they can't focus on faraway objects anymore.

that one of our clients would lie on the floor of his cell for hours,

just hoping to catch a glimpse of someone's feet

as they walked past the door of his cell.

Another befriended a wasp that flew into his cell,

feeding it and talking to it like a friend.

Some try to communicate with fellow prisoners

Still though, many of these men lost their voices

Their vocal cords were out of practice speaking for that long.

We know the impact of long-term isolation is devastating.

It's why harsh prison systems and torture regimes

routinely use solitary as a form of severe punishment.

And why none of us would tolerate having a loved one,

locked alone in a small bathroom for days, let alone years.

In the course of representing that first client at ADX,

we learned about another man, Tommy Silverstein,

who the Federal Bureau of Prisons put in solitary confinement

under a "no human contact" order in 1983,

He's been in solitary confinement for 35 years.

Struggling to find the words to capture his experience of ADX,

Tommy, who has become an accomplished artist,

Unless we start to change how we treat prisoners in this country,

he'll probably be there for the rest of his life.

said that of all the horrors they suffered in prison,

That's because solitary puts people at risk

【TED】勞拉-羅夫納。隔離監禁中的人們會發生什麼（勞拉-羅夫納：隔離監禁中的人們會發生什麼？ (【TED】Laura Rovner: What happens to people in solitary confinement (What happens to people in solitary confinement | Laura Rovner))

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