September 1, 2015Thousands of California inmates who have spent years in solitary confinement will move back into the general prison population as part of a lawsuit settlement with the state. The settlement,...
On September 1, the state of California reached a settlement to end indeterminate solitary confinement statewide. This historic victory deserves to be celebrated! Please join CCR and all of those who...
Updated: September 8, 2015
September 1, 2015California authorities have agreed to sharply limit the number of inmates held in isolation for long periods of time, a major development in the national debate about solitary confinement. The...
September 2, 2015In August, I was down at Guantánamo to represent Mohammed Kamin, an Afghan detainee who has been held at the prison for almost eleven years. (I left a six-month-old baby boy at home to travel to...
September 2, 2015In a major victory for prisoners’ rights, California has agreed to greatly reduce the use of solitary confinement...
September 1, 2015Criticism of the widespread practice in the United States of keeping prisoners in prolonged solitary confinement is growing because advocates and prisoners themselves have made it an issue. No place...
September 1, 2015Criticism of the widespread practice in the United States of keeping prisoners in prolonged solitary confinement is growing because advocates and prisoners themselves have made it an issue. No place...
September 1, 2015In a resolution that could have wide effects, California's prison system has agreed to change how it handles solitary confinement — and to review the cases of nearly 3,000 prisoners who are currently...
September 1, 2015California will put an end to the practice of keeping prisoners in solitary confinement for decades because of gang affiliation, under a proposed legal settlement announced Tuesday. The settlement,...
September 2, 2015Solitary confinement may be activists’ most successful battlefront in the growing war against mass incarceration. They scored another victory on Tuesday when they reached a “far-reaching settlement”...
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