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Minnesota prisons' troubling reliance on solitary confinement

The Star Tribune examines the use of solitary confinement in Minnesota prisons

By Billy Steve Clayton, Matt Gillmer and Jamie Hutt, Star Tribune

December 5, 2016 at 5:02PM

(Dave Braunger — Special to the Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

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