indefinite detention causes severe physical and psychological harms even in the absence of torture

The government's reliance on continued detention schemes as a panacea for resolving the difficult balance between national security or immigration policies and the rule of law is not only misguided, but it will yield new due process violations and violations of domestic and international rules prohibiting cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment...

see new Physicians for Human Rights report, 

Punishment Before Justice

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