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3. Nobody should be put into solitary confinement for even 5 months, let alone 5 years

Tue Oct 21, 2025, 02:50 PM

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Hopefully 'solitary' in the French system is not as much of an inhumane and abhorrent form of torture as it (generally) is in US prisons.

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