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Disabled inmates sue NY state prison system over placement in solitary confinement
Gannett via AOL· 4 hours agoA pair of civil rights groups sued the New York state correctional system Tuesday over what they...
Lawsuit: NYS prisons break law with solitary for disabled inmates
The Post-Standard· 8 hours agoThe New York State prison system continues to send inmates with mental illness disabilities to ...
The Ending of 'A Man in Full' Features the Wildest Scene of Full-Frontal Nudity in Years
Marie Claire· 4 days agoA Man in Full, Netflix's latest prestige miniseries from showrunner David E. Kelley, is catnip for...
Your turn: We must break the chains of torture in Illinois prisons
The State Journal-Register via Yahoo News· 14 hours agoReview shows empirically that "a criminal charge in a county with high levels of slavery in 1860 increases the likelihood of pretrial detention, the probability of a sentence of incarceration ...
Solitary confinement is like a ‘casket,’ says blind incarcerated New Yorker
WPIX New York City, NY via Yahoo News· 2 days agoNEW YORK (PIX11) – Maurice Anthony, a 42-year-old legally blind man incarcerated in New York,...
First Circuit checks RI prison staff’s qualified immunity against solitary confinement claims
Courthouse News Service· 2 days 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 ...
Nearly 500 Texas prison inmates suffer from flawed punitive housing system, lawsuit says | Houston...
Houston Public Media· 1 day agoGambill escaped from a county jail in 2002, was retroactively assigned a code and put in solitary ...
Judge won’t reconvene jury after disputed verdict in New Hampshire youth center abuse case - The...
The Boston Globe· 9 hours agoDavid Meehan, who alleged he was repeatedly raped, beaten and held in solitary confinement at the...
New push to end solitary confinement in federal prisons
WCVB Boston· 4 days agoThe two U.S. senators from Massachusetts are calling on the federal Bureau of Prisons to end ...
Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi sentenced to death for protesting
CNN via Yahoo News· 6 days agoDissident rapper Toomaj Salehi has been given a death sentence for his involvement in the widespread...