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Sarah Shourd

Journalist, playwright and University of California at Berkeley visiting scholar. She spent 410 days in solitary confinement while held as a political hostage by the Iranian government from 2009 to 2010. Since her release from prison five years ago, Shourd’s work has focused on exposing and condemning the cruelty and overuse of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons.

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