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Should convicted killers be kept in solitary confinement?

Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in Norway in 2011. He says being kept in isolation contravenes his human rights. Criminologist Sharon Shalev describes the psychological effects of solitary confinement.
(Photo: Anders Behring Breivik returns to a makeshift court in Skien prisons, Norway. March 15, 2016. Credit: AFP/Getty)

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