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Nearly 500 Texas prison inmates suffer from flawed punitive housing system, lawsuit says | Houston...
Houston Public Media· 4 hours agoGambill escaped from a county jail in 2002, was retroactively assigned a code and put in solitary ...
Solitary confinement is like a ‘casket,’ says blind incarcerated New Yorker
WPIX New York City, NY via Yahoo News· 1 day 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...
Judge won't reconvene jury after disputed verdict in New Hampshire youth center abuse case
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoDavid Meehan, who alleged he was repeatedly raped, beaten and held in solitary confinement at the...
First Circuit checks RI prison staff’s qualified immunity against solitary confinement claims
Courthouse News Service· 22 hours 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 ...
How do you repurpose a closed jail? Competing visions clash in St. Louis
Missouri Independent via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoInez Bordeaux had heard horror stories about the St. Louis jail commonly known as the Workhouse —...
Rally planned at Brooklyn prison for NY man held since 2021 on Jan. 6 cop-assault charges
Lohud | The Journal News via Yahoo News· 1 day agoSupporters of Capitol riot defendant Jake Lang plan to rally outside a Brooklyn prison on Wednesday...
New Hampshire jury finds state liable for abuse at youth detention center and awards victim $38M
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 6 days agoHampshire jury awarded $38 million to the man who blew the lid off abuse allegations at the state's youth detention center Friday, May 3, 2024, in a landmark case finding the state's negligence ...
Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi sentenced to death for protesting
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 days agoDissident rapper Toomaj Salehi has been given a death sentence for his involvement in the widespread...
N.Y. Prisons Holding Mentally Ill People in Solitary, Lawsuit Says
New York Times· 1 day agoEach time Stephanie Peña was placed alone in a prison cell the length and width of a parking spot,...