He has spent the last seven months in solitary confinement – a punishment that causes many prisoners to go mad and which the US National Commission on Prisons called “torturous.”

他已经被单独监禁了七个月——这种惩罚导致许多被关押者发疯，美国国家监狱委员会称之为“折磨”。

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Capital punishment is claimed to deter wrongdoing even better than lifelong confinement.

死刑之所以需要是因为它在制止犯罪方面甚至比终身监禁更有效。

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Their conversation occurred shortly after the dissident learned of her punishment for Yettaw's infraction: a further eighteen months in confinement.

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