We have demonstrated the extremely high ion energies needed to ignite this fuel, and the confinement time of tens of nanoseconds that we need to burn it.

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In September, 1986, after several months of sharing a cell with another hostage, Anderson was, for no apparent reason, returned to solitary confinement, this time in a six-by-six-foot cell, with no windows, and light from only a flickering fluorescent lamp in an outside corridor.

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He spent five years of that time in solitary confinement.

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The ring leader of the scandal, Abramoff, got 6 years in prison and most of the others involved received no prison time and instead got home confinement or probation.

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That amount of time can be served in home confinement.

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At the same time, other states had just a tiny fraction of their inmates in solitary confinement.

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