StopMAX: Video: “Cruel & Inhuman”

http://www.afsc.org/stopmax/ht/d/Home/pid/33392 What is StopMax? AFSC’s STOPMAX Campaign works to eliminate the use of isolation and segregation in U.S. prisons. Our strategies include research, grassroots organizing, public education and policy advocacy to abolish solitary confinement or reduce its use. What Is Solitary Confinement? Solitary confinement of prisoners exists under a range …

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I just put together this video based performance sketching notions about penitence, solitary confinement or the SHU (Security Housing Unit) – USA’s 182 years old method to incarcerate humans. I did the performance in October of last year in the room where cattle were electrocuted in a former slaughterhouse from …