48-year political prisoner reviews John Oliver's report on solitary confinement

The topic of solitary confinement was the focus of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uSZwErdH3I" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">a recent episode</a> of John Oliver's <i>Last Week Tonight </i>on HBO. Thanks to the hard work of activists organizing against solitary confinement for decades, awareness of the brutality of this practice has begun to enter the mainstream. Its history as a counterinsurgency tactic, however, has yet to be fully examined in the light of day. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez joins Rattling the Bars to speak with Mansa Musa, who spent 48 years behind bars himself, a number of which were spent in solitary, to discuss the cruel truths about solitary confinement that people on the outside need to know but rarely hear about.<br /><br />Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/former-prisoner-of-48-years-reviews-john-olivers-report-on-solitary-confinement<br /><br />Report: <a href="https://law.yale.edu/centers-workshops/arthur-liman-center-public-interest-law/liman-center-publications/time-cell-2021" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Time-In-Cell: A 2021 Snapshot of Restrictive Housing Based on a Nationwide Survey of U.S. Prison Systems</a><br /><br />Studio Production: David Hebden, Cameron Granadino<br />Post-Production: Cameron Granadino<br /><br /><b>The Real News is an independent, viewer-supported, radical media network. Help us continue producing Rattling the Bars by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer: </b><br /><br /><b>Donate: <a href="https://therealnews.com/donate-pod-rtb" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://therealnews.com/donate-pod-rtb</a></b><br /><b>Sign up for our newsletter: <a href="https://therealnews.com/nl-pod-rtb" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://therealnews.com/nl-pod-rtb</a></b><br /><br /><b>Get Rattling the Bars updates: <a href="https://therealnews.com/up-pod-rtb" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://therealnews.com/up-pod-rtb</a></b><br /><br /><b>Like us on Fa