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Column: Solitary confinement is shrouded in secrecy and open to abuse. Why does California allow it?
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoKevin McCarthy enjoys the sun on his back in Laguna Beach after being held in solitary confinement...
I spent 15 years in solitary confinement. It’s time California end this cruel practice | Opinion
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 1 month ago“From personal experience, our prison system was far more violent and far less rehabilitative when...
Mental health concerns prompt lawsuit to end indefinite solitary confinement in Pennsylvania
WHTM via Yahoo News· 3 months ago(AP) — Arguing that solitary confinement worsens mental health crises and violates Constitutional...
Bill to restrict solitary confinement in California stalls out in Sacramento
LA Times via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAssemblymember Chris Holden (D-Pasadena) agreed to hold a bill to limit solitary confinement in...
‘Moral blight’: Prisons in MO, KS use solitary more than national average, report says
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA Missouri prisoner told The Star that solitary confinement “is a day to day assault on the mind and...
Gavin Newsom rushes solitary confinement changes. They could make reforms an ‘uphill battle’
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 8 months agoCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration is expediting changes to the state’s solitary...
Should Rhode Island limit use of solitary confinement? Hear those who lived it speak out.
The Providence Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPROVIDENCE – Charlene Liberty died last April after struggling for years with mental illness, but...
US Supreme Court liberals dissent in 'unusually severe' solitary confinement case
Reuters via AOL· 7 months agoThe U.S. Supreme Court's three liberal justices on Monday sharply objected to the court's refusal to...
Settlement in Erie federal court ends inmate's 15 straight years of solitary confinement
Erie Times News via Yahoo News· 3 months agoPennsylvania state prison inmate Caine Pelzer has spent the past 15 straight years in solitary...
Chelsea Manning speaks of solitary confinement during New Year's Day poetry event
ABC News via Yahoo News· 5 months agoChelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence officer sentenced to military prison for one of the...