Amy Goodman
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"Opening the Box": After Being Jailed in Iran, Sarah Shourd Examines Solitary Confinement in U.S.
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August 24, 2015
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7:44Now PlayingDemocracy Now.org - Since her 2010 release from an Iranian prison, Sarah Shourd’s work has focused largely on exposing and condemning the cruelty and overuse of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons, and she just wrote a play about solitary confinement in the United States. "Opening the Box" was performed Thursday at an event hosted by the Fortune Society in New York City, before an audience of many who had been in solitary.
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