Judge Rosemary Pooler of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at a motion hearing June 26, 2012. Photo: Rick Kopstein
A federal appeals court judge, in a dissenting opinion, has decried the use of prolonged solitary confinement, in prisons as a form of torture, calling the practice “one of the true horrors of the modern-day penal system.”
In a Feb. 12 dissent, Judge Rosemary S. Pooler of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said that the planned conviction of an Italian national accused of organized crime activity, who had already endured nearly seven years of 23-hour-a-day solitary confinement in Italy, amounted to torture under an international human rights treaty.
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