Published
on Mar 12, 2015
The UN torture investigator has accused the US of denying him access
to prisons to visit inmates in solitary confinement and interview
those at the Guantanamo Bay prison.UN Special rapporteur on torture, Juan Mendez says he has been trying to visit US prisons and maximum-security facilities for two years to check on conditions at the detention centers. More than 80-thousand inmates are being kept in solitary confinement at several prisons. Mendez has criticized the United States’ overuse of solitary confinement. He says spending 30 years or more under such conditions is quote-cruel and shameful, but hiding or denying it just makes it worse. Mendez has also said that he refused a visit as the terms offered by US authorities were unacceptable. The US had told Mendez that he would not be allowed to have any conversation with any of the more than 100 inmates at the prison.
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