How Prison Guards Used An Illegal Strike To Fight Reform
Last year, the Legal Aid Society, Disability Rights Advocates, and Winston & Strawn LLP filed a class action lawsuit against ...
Florida’s proposed bills on solitary confinement is a win for human rights | Opinion
This bill is our chance to uncover the systematic nature of restrictive housing in our state and the effect it is having on ...
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Advocacy Group Slams New York’s Illegal ‘Suspension’ of Solitary Confinement Law
NEW YORK, NY – Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP) is calling out NY Gov. Kathy Hochul and the New York State Department of ...
Cellphone aided prisoner in Boise hospital ambush. Idaho’s senators take aim at problem
Housed in solitary confinement in the state’s maximum security prison, Skylar Meade texted his co-conspirator Nicholas Umphenour about their plans to free the then-31-year-old from custody. The men ...
With Prison Strike Over, NY State Must End Solitary Confinement
Opinion: Pace University professor Michael Mushlin says New York state prison systems need to reevaluate prison environments ...
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Q&A: Kwaneta Harris on Solitary Confinement, Prison Journalism, and Speaking Truth from Inside Texas Prisons
Injustice sat down with Kwaneta Harris, an incarcerated writer housed at the Lane Murray Unit, the largest women’s prison in ...
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HALT Act sponsor defends bill as state Republicans try for second repeal attempt
The HALT Solitary Confinement Act has become a controversial bill, playing a part in the correctional officer strike that ...
Virtual reality offers prisoners an escape from the isolation of solitary confinement— read full story
Prisons are using virtual reality to help inmates cope with loneliness in solitary confinement. VR technology provides ...
Woman who spent 16 days in extreme solitary confinement sues federal government
A woman who spent 16 days in an extreme form of solitary confinement in a Nova Scotia prison is now suing the federal ...
A glimpse at complaints inside Louisiana and Texas ICE detention centers holding Mahmoud Khalil and Badar Khan Suri
The ICE facilities where Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil and Georgetown University fellow Badar Khan Suri are ...
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What the Hundreds of Venezuelans Trump Sent to El Salvador Are Up Against
Earlier this month, President Donald Trump used the Alien Enemies Act to deport 238 Venezuelans from the United ...
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What Are the Ethics of Strapping VR Headsets on Inmates in Solitary Confinement?
Right now in the US, the total population held in prison is nearly 2 million people, over 20 percent of the world's prisoners. Of those, over 122,000 US citizens are forced to endure solitary ...