You may remember the three hikers who'd lived in California and were seized at the Iraq-Iran border in 2009, then held in a Tehran prison. One of them, Sarah Shourd, spent 410 days in solitary confinement. When she returned home to Oakland, she began researching the use of solitary confinement in American prisons. Shourd has written a new play called "The Box," which opens this weekend in San Francisco.
Inside 'The Box': New Play Explores Life in Solitary
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