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Federal Judge Rules 28 Years in Solitary Confinement Not “Extreme,” Dismisses Silverstein Case
Thomas Silverstein, plaintiff in a potentially groundbreaking case challenging his more than 28 years of extreme solitary confinement under a “no human contact” order, has had his case dismissed by a Federal District Court judge in Denver. Silverstein’s student attorney’s at the University of Denver law school had argued that their client’s decades of utter isolation in […]
James Ridgeway and Jean Casella