Not solitary confinement…detainees have “single-occupancy cells”

Conditions are more isolating than many death rows and maximum-security prisons in the United States, said Jules Lobel, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh who is an expert on U.S. prison conditions….

Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who was once a driver for Osama bin Laden…is suicidal, hears voices, has flashbacks, talks to himself and says the restrictions of Guantánamo “boil his mind.”

Pentagon officials say that Guantánamo holds dangerous men humanely and that there is no unusual quantity of mental illness there. Guantánamo, a military spokeswoman said, does not have solitary confinement, only “single-occupancy cells.”

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/27/8555/

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