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Two Essays for Human Rights Day

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http://ffuppenpalclub.blogspot.com/2013/03/two-essays-for-human-rights-day_6.html The blogger Between the Bars asked two political Prisoners in WSPF to Write essays on Solitary confinement.  The international community has deemed what US does here is cruel and inhuman. FFUP works with many prisons and any one in the "free world to end the abuse and overuse of segregation.  Essay one 2-18-2013 Beyond Solitary Confinement: Evolving the Standards of Decency       By : Mustafa- EL K.A. Agala 2-18-2013                 Beyond Solitary Confinement: Evolving the Standards of Decency                                                                     By : Mustafa- EL K.A. Agala   I. Introduction       Punishment for crime is the loss of liberty, not humanity. Deprivation of the latter is not only cruel and unusual, but it is the denial of a human right; one the evolving standards of decency in today’s society should no longer permit. Then, why