Manafort: I Was Being Pressured to Admit Facts that Weren’t True; Solitary Confinement Is Inhumane

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MANAFORT: "Well, they said it was to protect me. But I never believed that for a minute. It didn’t protect me. What did it was it put me into a situation, I’m in an 8x10 room with no windows, with no access to people, no access to outside, and limited ability to communicate with my lawyers. And I talk about that in the book. I talk about how, you know, it’s inhumane what they call solitary confinement. Then they even tried to get me to go to Rikers Island and forced me to be there in solitary, which fortunately, thanks to the Department of Justice, that didn’t happen because there was a fear of issue of safety for me in that context there."