For over a decade, we have known that the State of North Carolina has played a major role in the CIA’s use of torture but have been unable to get details about the program from state officials.
One of our panelists, Nancy Hollander, was an attorney for Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian who was detained at Guantanamo Bay without charge from 2002 to 2016 and was brutally tortured by the U.S. Government, including being force-fed seawater, sexually assaulted, repeatedly beaten, and subjected to mock executions.
The virtual panel discussion will feature experts on the history of U.S. torture, the role NC has played in its use, and the intersection of race and carceral abuse. For example, people of color are over-represented in North Carolina's prisons and jails, and our state's continued use of solitary confinement amounts to torture and disproportionately targets people of color and people with mental health disabilities
