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IX. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This report was researched and written by Jamie Fellner, Human Rights Watch associate counsel. It was edited by Cynthia Brown, program director of Human Rights Watch. Christina Portillo provided production assistance.

This report was produced as part of Human Rights Watch’s special initiative on United States prisons. We are grateful to the Open Society Insitute for its funding of this initiative.

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We investigate and expose human rights violations and hold abusers accountable.

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