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White, who spent four years in solitary, said many other ... another smeared feces along the walls of her cell. Others screamed. “Confinement drives a person insane,” said White, now the ...
Attorney Beau Brindley filed the motion on Tuesday claiming that officials solicited an inmate to murder Kelly, who has since been placed in solitary confinement. Brindley says that Kelly has been ...
Consoling a crying inmate violated a policy against touching other inmates, she claimed, and solitary confinement was the ... to themselves as the “women in white.” (Credit: Marci Marie ...
Correctional officer Travis, who has worked in solitary confinement for 12 years, expresses a similar sentiment. “You don’t realize how stressful it is inside the walls,” he said.
On Monday, the communications director of Assemblymember Chris Holden (D-Pasadena) sent a press release with the news that AB 280, a bill that sought to limit the use of solitary confinement in state ...
According to the suit, some of those held in solitary confinement at the prison have attempted suicide, flooded their cells with toilet water and written on walls using their own blood.
In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades ... helped dehumanize those housed within its walls. They were kept away from their loved ones, but also ...
Albert Woodfox, an activist and author who spent more than 43 years in solitary confinement in a Louisiana ... I lightly box the walls. My knuckles have calluses on them from boxing the wall.
The analysis also shows that facilities with the highest populations of solitary confinement also have a disproportionally higher number of non-white incarcerated individuals between the ages of ...