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An elderly man was discovered dead near the staircase of his residence in Netajinagar, Kolkata. Neighbors mentioned he lived ...
As North Carolina officials look to reduce their use of solitary confinement, several mentally ill inmates have killed ...
It would take just two hours for a jury to acquit him. Andrew Johnson’s path to solitary began in a crosswalk at a busy San Jose intersection four days before Halloween in 2014. After his ...
BERKELEY – A bill on Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk may determine the fate of hundreds of California inmates who are sitting in solitary confinement — a common and controversial practice that states ...
I’ve also seen the toll firsthand. I’ve spent more than 26 years in California’s prison system, including 13 reporting for San Quentin News, Solitary Watch and various other news outlets.
According to a motion filed by Angelo on the man’s behalf, he was held in solitary confinement at the jail since he was incarcerated Sept. 11. Angelo said the man was locked in a 6-foot-by-9 ...
For Tahj Graham, a trans man who spent the majority of his 18 months in prison in several women’s units in Texas, the threat of solitary confinement was a constant. He told me that solitary ...
They issued a misbehavior report for assault on staff and sentenced him to eight months in solitary. The other man received 35 days in the SHU for fighting him. But Adams ended up spending only a ...
Now he’s back in solitary for a fourth time ... which transferred him to UC San Diego Medical Center, where he had neurosurgery. When he returned to Imperial, the complaint says, he was placed ...
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.
In all three movies, a solitary, soul-weary man in crisis — who’s invariably seen alone in a room writing in a journal he shares in voice-over — undergoes a kind of transfiguration.
I’ve also seen the toll firsthand. I’ve spent more than 26 years in California’s prison system, including 13 reporting for San Quentin News, Solitary Watch and various other news outlets.