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Man who spent 22 years in solitary confinement fights to end the practice "I had no idea that I was about to be tortured for decades," Anthony Gay said.
Charles Bronson’s prison life reads like a war report. This is how one man earned the title of Britain’s most violent ...
Man held in solitary confinement for 9 years shares story as Newsom considers ban BERKELEY – A bill on Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk may determine the fate of hundreds of California inmates who are ...
A man with mental illness died after 20 days in solitary confinement. Did the jail system fail him?
In solitary confinement, a formerly incarcerated California man recalled, there were two kinds of people: One kind would read books in their cells, exercise and do and redo crossword puzzles. The ...
A man deemed so dangerous he was locked up in solitary confinement for 15 years has revealed how a chance encounter turned his life around—through the unlikely, but redemptive, power of ...
TACOMA — A man who died last week at one of the nation’s biggest immigrant detention centers, located in Tacoma, had been held in solitary confinement for more than three years and possibly ...
Minneapolis man exonerated in killing tells Senate panel about his 15 years in solitary confinement in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, an infamous prison farm known as the "Alcatraz of the South." ...
The United Nations says that prolonged solitary confinement can be psychological torture. One man — Dennis Hope — was held in solitary confinement for 27 years after two prison escapes.
An Indiana man with a history of schizophrenia died in the summer of 2021 due to organ failure following nearly three weeks in solitary confinement at a Jackson County jail, according to a newly ...
Society August 16, 2022 These Labor Unions Are Fighting to Keep Solitary Confinement A corrections officers’ union in New York is campaigning against new restrictions on solitary confinement ...
For 16 years, I lived in a concrete cell in South Carolina. Twenty-three hours a day, every day, for more than 3,000 days, in solitary confinement. I was a young man before I was sent to solitary ...