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ACLU Asks UN Rapporteur to Intervene for Montana Prisoner

And the American Civil Liberties Union is calling for United Nations intervention on behalf of a mentally ill prisoner in Montana. The prisoner, identified as Robert Doe, was jailed in 2008 at the age of sixteen. He has spent nearly half that time in solitary confinement. The ACLU says he has been tasered, pepper-sprayed, stripped naked before other prisoners, and subjected to other degrading treatment. He has tried to commit suicide on at least two occasions. The ACLU has issued its appeal to Manfred Nowak, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.