California Advocates Continue Fight To Limit Solitary Confinement
In 2022, a broad coalition of organizers in California introduced an ambitious bill to limit the use of solitary confinement in the...
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Jun 212 min read
Judge Finds New York State Prisons Violate Solitary Confinement Law
New York’s state prison system has been holding inmates in solitary confinement for too long, in violation of state law, a state judge...
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Crime and Justice News
May 82 min read
NY Violates Law On Solitary Confinement, Suit Charges
Each time Stephanie Peña was placed alone in a prison cell the size of a parking spot, she could feel herself losing it. Peña, 23 and...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 92 min read
About 8% Of Federal Inmates Remain In Solitary Confinement
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) use of restrictive housing. GAO...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 21, 20231 min read
New York City Council Votes To Ban Most Solitary Confinement
New York City could soon ban most solitary confinement in city jails, NPR reports. A new measure, passed on a 39 to 7 vote -- with enough...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 18, 20232 min read
NYC Expected To Become Largest City Banning Solitary Confinement
The New York City Council is expected on Wednesday to approve a bill that would make New York the largest U.S. city to ban solitary...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 14, 20232 min read
Supreme Court Refuses to Limit Use of Long Solitary Confinement
The Supreme Court’s liberal minority dissented on Monday from a decision leaving in place a lower court ruling that an Illinois man's...
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Crime and Justice News
May 24, 20232 min read
Solitary Head Count Topped 122k in 2019, Study Finds
As governments at all levels weigh how to limit the use of solitary confinement, a new report provides a first-of-its-kind analysis...
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By Heaven LaMartz
Mar 7, 20233 min read
'Restrictive Housing' Is Normalized in Many Prisons Despite Ill Effects
Restrictive housing, also known as solitary confinement, is a policy that isolates prisoners for up to 23 hours a day, sometimes for...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 2, 20231 min read
More Federal Inmates Held In Solitary Despite Biden Order
Federal prison officials are "actively investigating" why the number of prisoners being held in so-called restrictive housing has surged...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 27, 20232 min read
TX Sued Over Death Row Solitary Confinement
More than 23 years after Texas began strict isolation for its death-sentenced prisoners, and less than a week after the latest death-row...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 29, 20221 min read
Durbin, Trone Seek to Reduce Total 10K Total Of U.S. Inmates In Solitary
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Rep. David Trone (D-MD) have urged Federal...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 1, 20221 min read
NYC Poised to Ban Solitary Confinement in City Jails
A bill introduced in June that would ban solitary confinement in New York City jails appears primed for passage, with a veto-proof...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 14, 20222 min read
An Appeal For Better Policies on Federal Solitary Confinement
After a 40-year spike in federal incarceration rates beginning in 1980 has tapered off, a bipartisan consensus for solitary confinement...
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