I even fantasize about being locked up in solitary confinement".
The carver refuses to acknowledge to Mr. Goldberg that Israel is legitimate and ends up in solitary confinement.
Condemned as a "running dog of the Gang of Four," he was locked up in solitary confinement, allowed to read only books by Marx, Lenin, and Mao.
"Our political activities marked us and that's why they locked us up in solitary confinement, where I remained until yesterday," he said.
Like Gotham, about two-thirds of incarcerated juveniles have at least one mental illness, and many of them end up in solitary confinement.
Yet he remains powerfully attached to the rooms he drew up in solitary confinement, the sauna he built with his own hands.
Nine months ago, however, the 60-year-old was accused of being the lynchpin in a nefarious Chinese plot to steal America's nuclear secrets, and has been holed up in solitary confinement ever since.
Others have ended up in solitary confinement because they have untreated mental illnesses, are children in need of "protection", are gay or transgender, are Muslim, because of their political beliefs, or have reported rape or abuse by prison officials.
Instead, Mr. Bajracharya wound up in solitary confinement in a federal detention center for three months, weeping constantly, in a 6-by-9 cell where the lights were never turned off.
Your report on the detention of Purna Raj Bajracharya -- who in the guise of immigration enforcement was locked up in solitary confinement in the aftermath of Sept. 11, traumatized and mistreated for three months -- shows the enormous human costs as well as the serious policy failures of the vast, secretive system of immigration detention in the United States.
