Prison Conditions
- Ahmed is in solitary confinement 23 hours of the day. Solitary confinement is a form of torture under international law
- He gets one 15 minute unscheduled phone call a month
- He is allowed one hour of recreation but must get strip searched in order to utilize it (like many in his conditions, he chooses to forgo his recreational hour)
- Ahmed is under Special Administrative Measures (SAM). This means:
- Letters are monitored and take approximately 60days to reach him. Most recently, a letter Ahmed sent him mother in September only reach her at the end of January (more than 5 months!)
- He has limited and slow access to healthcare
- Check out Supermax: A Clean Version Of Hell
