Special housing units that provide increased therapy for those incarcerated are more helpful than putting a person solitary ...

The United Nation’s Mandela Laws defines solitary confinement as 22 hours or more a day “without meaningful human contact.” ...

According to a recent prison census, around 75,505 people are incarcerated in solitary confinement on any given day in America’s prison systems. As it sounds, the practice entails the isolation ...

And after a prison theft – during which I was accused of wrongdoing, but not involved – I was sent to solitary confinement and spent a year proving my innocence. Walking out to see ...

Officers, including those at North Country prisons, Clinton ... and which inmates, can be put in solitary confinement. Inmates over the age of 55 or under the age of 21 cannot be subjected ...

Like other survivors, however, he cannot separate his years in prison from his experience of “long term, repetitive solitary confinement.” It was even harder being around strangers.

A bill that would broadly ban the use of solitary confinement in federal prisons, jails and detention centers was introduced by a coalition of House Democrats on Thursday, a measure that seeks to ...

The Mandela California Mandela Act, Assembly Bill 280, would greatly limit solitary confinement and enhance rehabilitation opportunities in California prisons, jails and immigration detention ...

A Pennsylvania prison's practice of holding inmates in solitary confinement is inhumane and unconstitutional, according to a federal lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh.

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