Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa Dewberry has seen real sunlight only four times in the last 28 years

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Dewberry, an inmate at Pelican Bay State Prison, has been locked up since 1985 for murder. A few years into his 25-years-to-life sentence, he was admitted into the prison's Secure Housing Unit (SHU), a controversial solitary confinement unit designed to isolate prisoners suspected of gang affiliation.

Though Dewberry says he has been disciplinary-free for 16 years, his SHU detention is indefinite. He spends 22.5 to 24 hours per day inside of his windowless cell. He takes his meals through a slot in the wall and exercises in an empty concrete room with a translucent roof, offering no access to direct sunlight.

He is allowed no phone calls, no calendar and no contact with other prisoners.

And he has no idea if he will ever get out.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/10/solitary-confinement-torture_n_3573320.html

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1. Generally speaking, the way we treat our prisoners is downright fucking criminal.

Now, I don't even pretend to have any idea of how our prisons should be ran, but fuck-me-running, the way we've been going about it sure as shit aint "it".