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Solitary Confinement

Inmates With Serious Mental Illness Kept In Solitary Confinement For Years

AP | Posted 06.01.2013 | Crime

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A federal civil rights investigation has concluded that a state prison in western Pennsylvania kept inmates with serious mental ill...

Should Children Be In Solitary Confinement?

Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz | Posted 04.22.2013 | Religion
Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz

In a moment when the use of prolonged solitary confinement of youth is under increasing scrutiny around the country, a bill presents California with a critical opportunity to lead the way nationally in increasing access to rehabilitation and reducing harm for our young people.

Teen Treatment Center Using Solitary Confinement?

The Colorado Independent | Susan Greene | Posted 04.20.2013 | Denver

From The Colorado Independent's Susan Greene. A residential teen treatment center in Pueblo, Colorado, is under fire for housing children in prolon...

Bloomberg View Comes Out Against 'Inhumane' Solitary Confinement

The Huffington Post | Matt Sledge | Posted 04.12.2013 | Politics

The editors of Bloomberg View, the opinion arm of Bloomberg News, came out against solitary confinement in an editorial on Thursday that said the use ...

Evan Ebel Suicide Note Shows Parolee Was 'Ruined' By Solitary

The Colorado Independent | Susan Greene | Posted 04.11.2013 | Denver

From The Colorado Independent's Susan Greene. About two weeks before his death, Evan Ebel — suspect in last month’s murders of pizza delivery m...

Buried Alive: Solitary Confinement in Immigrant Detention

Sarah Shourd | Posted 06.08.2013 | Politics
Sarah Shourd

Even though -- like many detainees in our country -- I had no idea when I would get out of solitary confinement or prison itself, I never lost hope completely. For immigrant and national security detainees in this county, however, the opposite is true.

The Death Penalty Spectacle

Tung Yin | Posted 06.03.2013 | Denver
Tung Yin

Now that local prosecutors in Colorado have rejected the offer by alleged Aurora mass shooter James Holmes to plead guilty in exchange for avoiding the death penalty, we can once again ask whether it's worth it to incur the extra cost involved with capital punishment, compared to life imprisonment.

Elise Foley

Immigration Officials To Review Solitary Confinement Policies After NYT Report

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 03.26.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday that immigration officials will go back and look at their policies after The N...

Putting Kids In Solitary Confinement: A Cruel And Unwise Decision

Rev. Richard L. Killmer | Posted 05.25.2013 | Religion
Rev. Richard L. Killmer

I want a future community for my grandchildren which is marked by health and wholeness. By working to end the practice of the solitary confinement of youth, I hope to contribute to that kind of community.

Immigrants Suffer In Solitary Confinement

nytimes.com | Posted 03.24.2013 | Politics

On any given day, about 300 immigrants are held in solitary confinement at the 50 largest detention facilities that make up the sprawling patchwork of...

'Worse Than Death': What It's Like To Spend 25 Years In Solitary Confinement

Solitary Watch | Posted 03.16.2013 | Crime

The following essay is by William Blake, who has been held in solitary confinement for nearly 26 years. ...

23 Years of Solitary: Beyond "Cruel and Unusual"

Marie Levin | Posted 05.15.2013 | Politics
Marie Levin

I have only seen my brother ten times since he has been at Pelican Bay. The drive is almost eight hours, I don't own a car, and travel and lodging are very expensive.

World Trade Center Bomber Sues Over Solitary Conditions

Posted 02.18.2013 | Crime

First, Ramzi Yousef declared war on the United States government, vowing to wage jihad with bombs. Now, the convicted ringleader of the 1993 attack on...

Government Says WikiLeaks No Different From New York Times At Bradley Manning Hearing

Matt Sledge | Posted 03.11.2013 | Politics
Matt Sledge

The last two days of pretrial hearings for Bradley Manning have seen a couple of interesting developments: First, Judge Army Col. Denise Lind waded i...

Three Decades in Solitary Confinement: America's Greatest Living Prison Escape Artist

Gabriel London | Posted 02.18.2013 | Crime
Gabriel London

Eleven years ago, I set out on an adventure to tell the story of Mark DeFriest, an infamous and brilliant prison escape artist who had earned the title "Houdini of Florida" and has spent 27 of the last 32 years in prison for his escapes and disciplinary infractions.

Matt Sledge

Prisoner's Lawsuit Renews Debate Over Solitary Confinement

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 12.10.2012 | New York

NEW YORK -- For years, mental health experts have been increasingly concerned that solitary confinement amounts to torture. For years, they have sugge...

Torture In Prisons? Exonerated Death Row Inmate Speaks Out Against Solitary Confinement

HuffPost Live | Posted 11.09.2012 | Crime

“It was hell. It was torture every day,” said Anthony Graves, an exonerated death row inmate and activist, of the almost ten years he spent in sol...

D.C.'s Experiment To Reform Youth Incarceration

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 12.26.2012 | DC
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

This story also aired on WAMU-FM. By Anne Hoffman Since the first juvenile court was established in the late 1800s, the U.S. judicial system has been...

American Hiker Reveals Details Of Iran Imprisonment

Mother Jones | Shane Bauer | Posted 10.18.2012 | World

IT'S BEEN SEVEN MONTHS since I've been inside a prison cell. Now I'm back, sort of. The experience is eerily like my dreams, where I am a prisoner in ...

Andrea Stone

American Hiker Imprisoned In Iran Finds California Cells Worse

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 10.18.2012 | World

An American freelance journalist who spent more than two years in an Iranian prison said he can relate to inmates in U.S. prisons who face indefinite ...

Radley Balko

Our Broken Criminal Justice System: The Issues No One Is Talking About

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 11.19.2012 | Politics

Our broken criminal justice system wasn't discussed in the first two 2012 debates, and it's unlikely it will be addressed in the two that remain. In f...

Growing Up Locked Down: Teens in Solitary Confinement

Human Rights Watch | Posted 12.10.2012 | Politics
Human Rights Watch

(Washington D.C.) – Young people are held in solitary confinement in jails and prisons across the United States, often for weeks or months at a ...

Solitary Confinement Makes Youths 'Go Crazy'

AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 12.10.2012 | Crime

NEW YORK — State governments should abolish the use of solitary confinement for offenders under 18, whether as a punitive or protective measure,...

Katherine Bindley

Inside The Extreme Isolation Cells Of New York Prisons: NYCLU's Report

HuffingtonPost.com | Katherine Bindley | Posted 10.04.2012 | New York

For 23 hours a day over the course of four months, a 21-year-old inmate at Upstate Correctional Facility in Malone, N.Y., shared an isolation cell the...

John Rudolf

'Silently Screaming 24 Hours A Day': Report Slams Calif. Solitary Confinement

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 09.27.2012 | Crime

California's extensive use of solitary confinement in two state prisons subjects thousands of inmates to "cruel and degrading" conditions and amounts ...