{"content":[{"text":"Boston Review — Lance Tapley: The Worst of the Worst: Supermax Torture in America","bbox":{"left":0.088234,"top":0.00184,"width":0.699475,"height":0.015137}},{"text":"Page 2 of 10","bbox":{"left":0.813137,"top":0.00184,"width":0.09860799999999992,"height":0.015137}},{"text":"WARNING: This video may disturb some viewers.","bbox":{"left":0.098038,"top":0.449699,"width":0.407835,"height":0.015156999999999976}},{"text":"This video, leaked to Lance Tapley, shows a cell extraction at the super-maximum security unit of the \n Maine State Prison in Warren. Each such extraction is videotaped by guards to prove that \n mistreatment does not occur. The mentally ill prisoner is maced while he is forcibly moved from his \n cell, denuded, and placed in a restraint chair.","bbox":{"left":0.098038,"top":0.483355,"width":0.7990820000000001,"height":0.06543999999999994}},{"text":"“They were messing with me,” he explained, referring to the guards who taunted him. “I couldn’t \n stand it no more.” He added, “I’ve knocked myself out by running full force into the wall.”","bbox":{"left":0.098038,"top":0.62381,"width":0.764265,"height":0.031803000000000026}},{"text":"James, who is in his twenties, has been beaten all his life, first by family members: “I was punched, \n kicked, slapped, bitten, thrown against the wall.” He began seeing mental-health workers at four and \n taking psychiatric medication at seven. He said he was bipolar and had many other disorders. When a \n doctor took him off his meds at age eighteen, he got into “selling drugs, robbing people, fighting, \n burglaries.” He received a twelve-year sentence for robbery. Of the four years James had been in \n prison when I met him, he had spent all but five months in solitary confinement. The isolation is \n “mental torture, even for people who are able to control themselves,” he said. It included periods \n alone in a cell “with no blankets, no clothes, butt-naked, mace covering me.” Everything James told \n me was confirmed by other inmates and prison employees.","bbox":{"left":0.098038,"top":0.672446,"width":0.795943,"height":0.14937899999999993}},{"text":"James’s story illustrates an irony in the negative reaction of many Americans to the mistreatment of \n “war on terrorism” prisoners at Guantánamo. To little public outcry, tens of thousands of American \n citizens are being held in equivalent or worse conditions in this country’s super-harsh, super- \n maximum security, solitary-confinement prisons, or in comparable units of traditional prisons. The \n Obama administration— somewhat unsteadily—plans to shut down the Guantánamo detention center","bbox":{"left":0.098038,"top":0.838658,"width":0.795929,"height":0.08225799999999994}},{"text":"http://www.bostonreview.net/BR35.6/tapley.php","bbox":{"left":0.088234,"top":0.985022,"width":0.382138,"height":0.015137000000000067}},{"text":"12/21/2010","bbox":{"left":0.822549,"top":0.985022,"width":0.08919699999999997,"height":0.015137000000000067}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.21451,"top":0.074849,"width":0.017059,"height":0.015152}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.21451,"top":0.074849,"width":0.017059,"height":0.015152}]}