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Kids in solitary confinement: State-sponsored child abuse
Molly J said of her time in solitary confinement: “[I felt] doomed, like I was being banished … Like you have the plague or that you are the worst thing on earth. Like you are set apart [from] everything else. I guess [I wanted to] feel like I was part…
Solitary confinement on trial: Senators consider human rights issues in U.S. prisons
The first-ever congressional hearing on the use of solitary confinement in US prisons has begun in Washington. Members of the Senate judiciary subcommittee on the constitution, civil rights and human rights are hearing testimony from a range of speakers including a former prisoner who spent years locked alone in his…
Two Louisiana men mark 40th anniversary in solitary confinement
“I can make about four steps forward before I touch the door,” Herman Wallace says as he describes the cell in which he has lived for the past 40 years. “If I turn an about-face, I’m going to bump into something. I’m used to it, and that’s one of the…
Judge finds prolonged solitary confinement for ‘merchant of death’ unconstitutional
NEW YORK — A US judge on Friday ordered Viktor Bout, a Russian convicted of arms trafficking, to be removed from solitary confinement and put into a regular facility, saying that to continue his 15-month ordeal violated the constitution. Bout was convicted last November in New York federal court, concluding…
Man held in solitary two years without trial cannot remember ordeal
A New Mexico man, who expects to suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) for the rest of his life, was awarded $22 million last week after he was tossed in solitary confinement for two years and never given a trial, but he remembers very little of the ordeal, Raw…
Norway killer tells judge ‘two more cells’ exist
OSLO (Reuters) – Anders Behring Breivik told a Norwegian judge on Monday his bombing and shooting rampage that killed 93 people aimed to save Europe from a Muslim takeover, and said that “two more cells” existed in his organization. Breivik has previously said he had acted alone and police have…
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