Unwise and unsafe,” DOC Commissioner Tom Schnell said about a bill to ban solitary confinement in Minnesota’s jails and ...
Injustice sat down with Kwaneta Harris, an incarcerated writer housed at the Lane Murray Unit, the largest women’s prison in ...
Deborah Zalesne is a law professor at CUNY School of Law. She co-authored “Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement” with Christopher Blackwell. The book, which is forthcoming from ...
The HALT Solitary Confinement Act has become a controversial bill, playing a part in the correctional officer strike that ...
Opinion: Pace University professor Michael Mushlin says New York state prison systems need to reevaluate prison environments ...
Photo by John McCarten/City Council Lawmakers, Survivors of Solitary, Family Members, and Allies Rallied to Demand Immediate and Full Implementation of the HALT Solitary Confinement Law After the ...
This bill is our chance to uncover the systematic nature of restrictive housing in our state and the effect it is having on ...
Robert Maudsley, known as “Hannibal the Cannibal,” holds the record for longest solitary confinement. After his gaming console and TV were confiscated, Maudsley has gone on a hunger strike. His ...