July 11, 2013
"The only contact they have is with law enforcement, and order to interact with them they have to fight, and they fight with them because they need some interaction. When they end up in their cell all beat up, they did it to have contact with humans."

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Former solitary-confinement inmate Alex Sanchez on the deranging isolation his fellow prisoners experience. Sanchez is part of a coalition supporting 29,000 California inmates currently on hunger strike to protest draconian conditions. Sources say scores of inmates there have been in solitary confinement for more than a decade. 

“After a month I was schizophrenic. I didn’t know who to trust and I was talking to myself,” Sanchez says. “Imagine someone that’s been in there for 30 years.“

(Source: ABC News-Univision)

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