Solitary Confinement

Inmates Sue For Being Kept In Solitary Confinement For 10 Years

AP | PAUL ELIAS | Posted 05.31.2012

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Hundreds of prisoners who have spent more than a decade in a California prison's notorious solitary confinement cells have filed a ne...

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Simon McCormack

SOLITARY TERROR: Mother Shares Son's Misery In Prison 'Box'

HuffingtonPost.com | Simon McCormack | Posted 05.17.2012

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In movies, solitary confinement is what happens to prisoners who shank someone in the dining hall or attack a prison guard. Lynn Finley said she th...

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Mentally Ill Inmates Sue To Get Out Of Solitary

AP | REMA RAHMAN | Posted 05.17.2012

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DENVER -- Troy Anderson is a mentally ill inmate in isolation at the Colorado State Penitentiary, deemed for more than a decade too dangerous to be am...

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If You Build it, They Won't Come

Joel Judd | Posted 04.05.2012

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Joel Judd

CSP II, Colorado's newest solitary confinement prison, cost several hundred million dollars. We've used a small part for one year and are about to mothball it. It will likely never again be used for any purpose.

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Saving Dollars... With Good Policy

Edwin Yohnka | Posted 05.28.2012

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Edwin Yohnka

Closing Tamms offers Illinois a unique opportunity to re-examine the use of solitary confinement in all of its prison facilities. We should not let voices of alarm about public safety deter state officials from looking at the use of solitary confinement.

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Life In a Box

Diane Dimond | Posted 04.30.2012

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Diane Dimond

Americans were once riveted by the horrific news of the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. Today, I believe there is another atrocity taking place inside our own American prison system.

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Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement and Occupy 4 Prisoners

Bill Quigley | Posted 04.24.2012

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Bill Quigley

One of the major complaints of prisoner human rights activists is the abuse of solitary confinement in prisons across the U.S.

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Tightening Belts Means Loosening Restraints: Illinois to Close Supermax Prison

Tanya Greene | Posted 04.24.2012

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Tanya Greene

One of the more positive things to result from deteriorating state budgets across the nation is that some state lawmakers are looking to smart criminal justice reform as a way to trim budgets. One such change began yesterday in Illinois.

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Inmate: 99 Percent Should Worry About Death Row's 'Bottom 1 Percent'

Reuters | Posted 04.21.2012

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By Laird Harrison SAN QUENTIN, Calif., Feb 20 (Reuters) - Hundreds of anti-Wall Street demonstrators and prison reform activists join...

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Man Locked In Solitary For 2 Years Wins $22 Settlement

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 03.27.2012

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A New Mexico man held in solitary confinement at a county prison for two years without a trial has won a $22 million suit for violations of his consti...

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Virginia is for Lovers... of Solitary Confinement?

Tanya Greene | Posted 03.12.2012

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Tanya Greene

The horrors of 23-hour-a-day lockdown, sensory deprivation and isolation were lauded by DOC officials as a necessary measure for handling the "worst of the worst." Unfortunately, this supposed "worst of the worst" includes the mentally ill.

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John Rudolf

Too Many Colorado Prisoners Kept in Solitary, State-Funded Report Finds

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 11.28.2011

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Colorado could "significantly reduce" the unusually high percentage of its prison inmates held in long-term solitary confinement by instituting severa...

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Calif. Prisons Use Indefinite Solitary Confinement To Thwart Gang Violence

www.latimes.com | Jack Dolan | Posted 11.06.2011

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U.S. prisons typically reserve solitary confinement for inmates who commit serious offenses behind bars. In California, however, suspected gang member...

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California Prison Hunger Strike Continues

Posted 09.18.2011

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Inmates in a third of California's prisons are conducting a hunger strike in protest of solitary confinement policy. Recent reports show that many inm...

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John Rudolf

California Prisoners Join Hunger Strike to Protest Solitary Conditions

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 12.01.2011

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Nearly 1,500 inmates at six California prisons have joined a hunger strike by prisoners confined in one of the state's harshest isolation units, priso...

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Amnesty International Slams U.S. Solitary Confinement Sentences

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 08.08.2011

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Picture a box measuring roughly 6.5 by 9 feet. Imagine sitting in that box, 23 hours a day, for 40 years. For most, that describes a claustrophobic ...

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Private Bradley Manning: A Victim of the Military Empire?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011

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John W. Whitehead

We in America have conveniently forgotten that we once stood for something more than a warring military empire. The case of Bradley Manning makes this clear.

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Turning the Corner on Solitary Confinement?

David C. Fathi | Posted 05.25.2011

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David C. Fathi

Colorado state senators have introduced a bill that would substantially limit the use of solitary confinement in the state's prisons. These reforms are long overdue.

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Bill Targets Solitary Confinement

Posted 05.25.2011

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A bill introduced this week in the Colorado State Senate this week seeks to decrease the number of mentally disabled prisoners in solitary confinement...

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Tortured Until Proven Guilty: Bradley Manning and the Case Against Solitary Confinement

Lynn Parramore | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lynn Parramore

As we spend time and rejoice with our friends and family this New Year's Eve, let us pause for a moment to remember the thousands of people being tortured in American prisons, including Bradley Manning.

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Inhumane Detention Conditions For Alleged WikIleaks' Source

Salon | Steve Kornacki | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor o...

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Weekly Pulse: Bloomberg Shaking up Soda Pop with Politics

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

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by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is asking the USDA to approve a pilot program that would preve...

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Supermax Solitary Confinement Report's Rumored Benign Findings Have Many Upset

Westword | Alan Prendergast | Posted 05.25.2011

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The release of a twelve-month study about the mental effects of solitary confinement at Colorado's supermax is still weeks away. But preliminary re...

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Ahmed Abu Ali, Terror Suspect, And His Solitary Confinement In Florence's Supermax

AlterNet | Mariam Abu-Ali | Posted 05.25.2011

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My brother, Ahmed Abu Ali, has spent the past five years in solitary confinement, under 23-hour lockdown, in a 7x12 cell. He has one recreational hour...

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Supermax Prisons: Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading

David C. Fathi | Posted 05.25.2011

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David C. Fathi

The ACLU has been bringing challenges to supermax prisons for over a decade, and what we've found is troubling. The official line is that these prisons are reserved for the "worst of the worst" but most states have only a few such prisoners.

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