{"id":22349,"date":"2014-02-28T11:30:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T16:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=22349"},"modified":"2014-03-04T12:25:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T17:25:46","slug":"religious-leaders-and-solitary-confinement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2014\/02\/28\/religious-leaders-and-solitary-confinement\/22349\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Leaders and Solitary Confinement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the US Senate prepared for hearings on 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 called a form of torture. We spoke with Laura Markle Downton of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture,\u00a0 Rabbi Rachel Gartner of T&#8217;ruah: A Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, and Galen Carey of the National Association of Evangelicals. &#8220;God made us to be in contact with other human beings, and when we take that human contact away, it exacerbates whatever problems that may have been there before. So rather than rehabilitating people, it actually makes them worse,&#8221; said Carey. <em>Interviews by Nick Liao. Video by Lauren Talley. Edited by Anton Vidale.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God made us to be in contact with other human beings. And when we take that human contact away, it exacerbates whatever problems that may have been there before. 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