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Our post about H.R. 4247, the Keeping All Students Safe Act–which bans excessive use of physical restraints, solitary confinement, and other abusive treatment in the nation’s schools–brought in a lot of comments, both on this site and on others sites that picked up the story. Several readers asked what reasons those 153 members of Congress (145 Republicans and […]

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House Republicans Explain Why They Oppose Ban on Child Abuse in Schools

Most House Republicans Vote to Let Schoolchildren Be Held Down, Tied Up, and Put in Solitary Confinement

Maine’s Solitary Confinement Bill: Another Test of Our Tolerance for Torture

Charles Dickens on Solitary Confinement: “Immense Torture and Agony”

Voices from Solitary: Charles P. Norman on “The Insanity of Solitary Confinement”

Solitary Confinement Cells Have Become America’s New Asylums

ACLU Calls on U.N. Human Rights Official to Stop Teen’s Torture in Montana Prison

Two Clinton-Era Laws That Permit Cruel and Unusual Punishment

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime

Kids Languish in Solitary While Awaiting Trial in Colorado

Georgia’s Response to Death Row Suicides: Restrict Family Visits

Louisiana Sues Its Own Death Row Prisoners

Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk from a Cell to Freedom

Children in Lockdown: Solitary Confinement of Teens in Adult Prisons

Children Sentenced to Die in Prison

No End to U.S. Torture

Solitary Deaths in Immigrant Detention Centers

Amy Goodman and Atul Gawande on Solitary Confinement

The Hashmi Case Brings Guantanamo Home