McLemore was also never photographed, fingerprinted or asked any medical questions for new arrivals; instead, he was taken directly to a padded ... people in solitary confinement be allowed ...

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 ... in a windowless, padded isolation cell ...

For nearly three weeks, Joshua McLemore lived in solitary confinement ... restrained in Padded Cell 7 on July 25, 2021/photo provided On Aug. 3—two weeks after his confinement started—a ...

"A seclusion room typically is a small closet-sized space, typically with padded walls ... "And it's usually used for the solitary confinement of children who are sometimes exhibiting challenging ...

The practice, officially called room confinement, is needed in some cases to keep staff and other children in custody safe, correctional administrators say. But solitary is known to have harmful ...

Yet California is now on the verge of passing a law that facilitates placing pregnant women in solitary confinement. As someone who experienced the dehumanizing and degrading effects of being ...

Researchers looking into the use of solitary confinement in Washington prisons ... Putting people into a room by themselves and stripping them of everything, including their dignity, is not ...