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Religious Leaders and Solitary Confinement

Faith-based leaders gather to call attention to the practice of solitary confinement.

02/28/2014 | Rating NR

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Religious Leaders and Solitary Confinement

Clip: 2/28/2014 | 6m 5s

Faith-based leaders gather to call attention to the practice of solitary confinement.

As the US Senate prepared for hearings one the use of solitary confinement in American prisons, a coalition of faith-based leaders gathered near Capitol Hill to denounce the practice, which some of them have called a form of torture.

02/28/2014 | Rating NR

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