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First Circuit checks RI prison staff’s qualified immunity against solitary confinement claims
Courthouse News Service· 37 minutes agoCivil rights lawyers urged a federal appeals panel on Wednesday to find that Rhode Island corrections officers violated constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment by keeping ...
Solitary confinement is like a ‘casket,’ says blind incarcerated New Yorker
WPIX New York City, NY via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoNEW YORK (PIX11) – Maurice Anthony, a 42-year-old legally blind man incarcerated in New York,...
Are Maine prisoners being held in solitary confinement? Without a definition, it’s hard to say
Maine Morning Star via Yahoo News· 6 days agoAn effort to define solitary confinement in Maine law failed to receive a vote in the Legislature...
Rally planned at Brooklyn prison for NY man held since 2021 on Jan. 6 cop-assault charges
Gannett via AOL· 14 hours agoSupporters of Capitol riot defendant Jake Lang plan to rally outside a Brooklyn prison on Wednesday...
N.Y. Prisons Holding Mentally Ill People in Solitary, Lawsuit Says
New York Times· 14 hours agoEach time Stephanie Peña was placed alone in a prison cell the length and width of a parking spot,...
Oregon hospitals ask Ninth Circuit to revive long-term mental health treatment lawsuit
Courthouse News Service· 32 minutes agoThe four hospital groups, Legacy Health, Providence Healthy & Services, PeaceHealth and St. Charles...
Fewer than 10 show for rally at Brooklyn prison for NY man held for Jan. 6 assault charges
The Journal News· 26 minutes agoThe promised spectacle of protesters riding horses in the shadow of the Gowanus Expressway wound up being a sole rider: "Cowboys for Trump" founder Couy Griffin, cradling an American flag in ...
Activists demand answers about detainee’s death at NWDC
Real Change News· 16 hours agoRight in front of the tall barbed-wire fence surrounding ICE’s Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) is a tent filled with flowers, garlands, candles and a bright yellow sign commemorating the life ...
New push to end solitary confinement in federal prisons
WCVB Boston· 2 days agoThe two U.S. senators from Massachusetts are calling on the federal Bureau of Prisons to end ...
‘Finally’: Class of 2024 graduates from ASU after many started college during COVID-19
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 1 day agoFor Cordero Holmes, 35, the journey to get to ASU has been far from clear. Holmes spent 10 years in prison, including some time in solitary confinement, ...
