Our latest piece over at Mother Jones concerns an important trial beginning today in Federal District Court in Denver, in which a prisoner with mental illness is challenging more than a decade in solitary confinement in the Colorado State Penitentiary. Also included is background on the groundbreaking work of the University of Denver’s Civil Rights Clinic; on […]
Civil Rights Clinic
Fortresses of Solitude (Part 1)
Cañon City, Colorado, is the Solitary Confinement Capital of the Western World. Now, a Small Group Lawyers, Legislators, and Activists Is Challenging This All-American Form of Torture. Part 1: The Alcatraz of the Rockies On the wall opposite Laura Rovner’s desk at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law is a large framed drawing […]