AOC: Manafort Should Not be Held in Solitary Confinement

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday took up an unlikely cause — the plight of convicted fraudster Paul Manafort.

The progressive lawmaker expressed alarm at reports that President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman would likely be held in isolation after his expected transfer to Rikers Island — the New York City jail complex is in her congressional district — to face additional state fraud charges.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., does not want President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort to be held in solitary confinement, she said in a Wednesday morning tweet.

Ocasio-Cortez was responding to a to a New York Times report that Manafort may be held in solitary confinement at the Rikers Island jail in New York.

Noting that the notorious prison was located in her district, the freshman representative called solitary confinement a "license for gov torture and human rights violations."

"Manafort should be released, along with all people...