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Advocates call on Congress to end solitary confinement in prisons
FOX30 / CBS47 Jacksonville· 6 days agoRight now, thousands of inmates are in solitary confinement in federal prisons, nationwide. This is...
Lawmakers eyeing solitary confinement crackdown in federal prisons, migrant detention facilities
Courthouse News Service· 7 days agoThe Senate took aim at solitary confinement Tuesday, as some lawmakers branded the practice as a...
Terry Anderson, US journalist held hostage in Lebanon for nearly seven years – obituary
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoTerry Anderson, who has died aged 76, was the former Associated Press (AP) bureau chief in Beirut...
Lawyer defending New Hampshire in youth center abuse trial attacks former resident's credibility
Associated Press· 11 hours agoA lawyer defending the state of New Hampshire against abuse allegations at its youth detention...
Officer uses chain to strangle man in solitary confinement as guards watch, lawsuit says
Miami Herald via AOL· 5 days agoInside a solitary confinement jail cell in Georgia, a pretrial detainee restrained to a chair freed...
Jack Whalen heads home without commitment to end statute of limitations for abuse claims
CBC via Yahoo News· 2 days agoWhalen, who estimates he spent more than 700 days in solitary confinement as a teen at the...
Eighth Amendment Features in Supreme Court Case on Homelessness
New York Times· 19 hours agoThe Eighth Amendment is most commonly applied to punishments, not to laws themselves, and it is...
Judge denies Carr brothers’ request for new sentence in death penalty murder case
Wichita Eagle via AOL· 15 hours agoJonathan Carr appeared at Monday’s hearing. Reginald Carr waived his right to attend. Both are...
NYC councilman looks to bring back some solitary confinement in Big Apple jails
New York Post· 4 days agoA New York City lawmaker wants to ban triple tours in Big Apple jails — and bring back solitary for...
Julian Assange
Amnesty International· 14 hours agoAmnesty International strongly opposes any possibility of Julian Assange being extradited or sent in any other manner to the USA. There, he faces a real...
