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February 18, 2010

ACLU Asks UN Rapporteur to Intervene for Montana Prisoner
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And the American Civil Liberties Union is calling for United Nations
intervention on behalf of a mentally ill prisoner in Montana. The
prisoner, identified as “Robert Doe,” was jailed in 2008 at the age of
sixteen. He has spent nearly half that time in solitary confinement. The
ACLU says he has been tasered, pepper-sprayed, stripped naked before
other prisoners, and subjected to other degrading treatment. He has
tried to commit suicide on at least two occasions. The ACLU has issued
its appeal to Manfred Nowak, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and
Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.



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