Lawsuit Challenges South Carolina’s Use of Solitary Confinement on Prisoners...
Research by an advocacy group found that inmates with mental illness in South Carolina’s prisons receive inadequate care and “spend an inordinate amount of time in solitary confinement.” The group has...
View ArticleMentally Ill in South Carolina’s Prisons Suffer Decades of Abuse and Neglect
Photo: South Carolina Department of Corrections, Trial Exhibit A court ruling out of South Carolina this week deserves the attention of anyone concerned with the use of solitary confinement and other...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [6/22/14]
The following roundup features noteworthy news, reports and opinions on solitary confinement from the past week that have not been covered in other Solitary Watch posts. • In The Daily Beast, Solitary...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [11/16/2014]
The following roundup features noteworthy news, reports and opinions on solitary confinement from the past week that have not been covered in other Solitary Watch posts. • Washington Post columnist...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [1/11/2015]
The following roundup features noteworthy news, reports and opinions on solitary confinement from the past week that have not been covered in other Solitary Watch posts. • South Carolina has paid $1.2...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [2/22/2015]
The following roundup features noteworthy news, reports and opinions on solitary confinement from the past week that have not been covered in other Solitary Watch posts. • The New York Times magazine...
View ArticleVoices from Solitary: Letters from the Hole
Solitary Watch frequently receives notes from prisoners, many of them in solitary. From time to time, we want to share excerpts some of these with our readers. Names of prisoners and prisons have been...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [1/26/14]
The following roundup features noteworthy news, reports and opinions on solitary confinement from the past week that have not been covered in other Solitary Watch posts. • In early January, a South...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [2/9/14]
The following roundup features noteworthy news, reports and opinions on solitary confinement from the past week that have not been covered in other Solitary Watch posts. • The ACLU released an online...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [11/1/2015]
• The Center for Constitutional Rights has appealed a district court ruling in a case that seeks to challenge the constitutionality of the Bureau of Prison’s restrictive Communication Management Units...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [6/5/2016]
• Rhode Island’s House Judiciary Committee was scheduled to consider legislation that would create a commission to study the use of solitary confinement in the state’s prisons. Representative Aaron...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [5/20/18]
• The Charlotte Observer reported that 39-year-old Kenneth Wayne Bigham committed suicide only days after being placed in solitary confinement at Mecklenburg County Jail in North Carolina, where no...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [8/19/18]
• According to The Appeal, the Promise of Justice Initiative released a report examining the high rate of deaths in the custody of the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison (EBRPP) in Louisiana. Twenty-five...
View ArticlePrisons Use Solitary Confinement to Silence Strikers Nationwide—But Their...
In commemoration of the Attica Uprising 47 years earlier, incarcerated organizers chose September 9 as the final day of the nearly three-week-long National Prison Strike that began on August 21. The...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [1/7/19]
• Courthouse News reported that two lawsuits have been filed in the past few weeks against Alameda County in California over conditions at Santa Rita Jail and Glen Dyer Detention Facility. Three women...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [1/28/19]
• The New York Times reported that New York City settled the civil rights and wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of Kalief Browder, and agreed to pay $3.3 million. Browder, arrested for...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [4/15/19]
• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the Georgia Advocacy Office and the Southern Center for Human Rights filed a lawsuit, claiming that women with psychiatric disabilities reside isolated...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [10/28/19]
• According to the Hartford Courant, Judge Stefan Underhill has called the conditions “unconstitutional” for people held on Connecticut’s death row. While Connecticut has abolished capital punishment,...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [12/23/19]
• The Associated Press published an article on the high rate of suicides by people held in solitary confinement across New York state prisons. A report from the New York State Department of Corrections...
View ArticleSeven Days in Solitary [2/10/20]
• The Lancet Public Health Journal published the findings of a five-year study that examined the post-release effects of solitary confinement, by tracking nearly 14,000 people rotating through Danish...
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