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Solitary confinement is a form of imprisonment in which an incarcerated person lives in a single cell with little or no contact with other people. It is a punitive tool used within the prison system to discipline or separate incarcerated individuals who are considered to be security risks to other incarcerated individuals or prison staff, as well as those who violate facility rules or are ...
Solitary confinement (sometimes euphemistically called protective custody, punitive segregation (PSEG) or room restriction) generally comes in one of two forms: "disciplinary segregation," in which inmates are temporarily placed in solitary confinement as punishment for rule-breaking; and "administrative segregation," in which prisoners deemed ...
The term “solitary confinement” conjures up images of an inmate being held alone in a dark, dank, windowless concrete cell with nothing more than a thin mattress.
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Progressives celebrated a 2019 law meant to reform solitary confinement. But the state’s Department of Corrections doesn’t seem to be following it.
It's unclear whether the End Solitary Confinement Act can get support from Republicans or President Joe Biden, who made a campaign pledge to overhaul the federal prison system, in part "by ending ...
The book was edited by the two founders of Solitary Watch, Jean Casella and James Ridgeway, and the journalist Sarah Shourd. Shourd spent over a year in solitary confinement in Iran. [2] Solitary Watch aims to raise public awareness of solitary confinement through firsthand recollections. [3] The New Press published the book on February 2, 2016 ...
A first-of-its-kind analysis is aiming to become a benchmark for tracking the full scope of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails.