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Solitary Confinement: Punishment Or Cruelty?

A hallway at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. The prison, opened in 1829 and closed in 1970, pioneered the use of solitary confinement. Jacki Lyden /NPR hide caption

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Solitary Confinement: Punishment Or Cruelty?

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Solitary Confinement: Punishment Or Cruelty?

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Once On Death Row, He Now Fights To Defeat The Death Penalty

Kirk Bloodsworth was the first person in the U.S. to be exonerated by DNA evidence after receiving the death sentence. Convicted in 1985 of the rape and murder of a young girl, he was released in 1993. Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Law

Once On Death Row, He Now Fights To Defeat The Death Penalty

Once On Death Row, He Now Fights To Defeat The Death Penalty

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'The Last Five Years' Returns To New York

Adam Kantor and Betsy Woolfe star in the current off-Broadway revival of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years. The Hartman Group / Second Stage Theatre hide caption

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Theater

'The Last Five Years' Returns To New York

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'The Last Five Years' Returns To New York

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