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My name's Don Brown, 467895; I'm calling from Ohio. This is about supermax prisons. I was in a supermax prison from 2009 to 2014. And I’d like to talk about the effects that has on people's minds. Now there's a difference between being placed in supermax for years and segregation. Segregation is short-term where supermax could be indefinite, but I could be in a supermax for any prolonged period of time, for years on end. When you're released, a person is paranoid. They get overly paranoid being around people. And I know this firsthand. And not only this is when you are in the supermax, it - you have nothing but time on your hands and that much time on your hands it- it creates animosity towards your captors, you know, and there is no way that a person could get any help while they're in there. They don't have any classes, they have- they have nothing just- just time. That's it. And during this time, people learn. They learn how to make weapons. They also learn a lot about themselves. Learn how- how much human