lawsuit/litigation Archives

lawsuit/litigation

This week’s pick of news and commentary about solitary confinement: Five incarcerated people have filed a class-action lawsuit demanding an end to the “damaging and degrading” use of solitary confinement in Oregon state prisons. According to the lawsuit, the state’s solitary practices violate both its constitution and disability rights laws. Earlier this year, the Oregon […]

Seven Days in Solitary

lawsuit/litigation

Class-Action Lawsuit Challenges Oregon’s Use of Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Solitary and Suicides Prevalent in ICE Detention…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Judge Condemns “Unprompted” Solitary for Suspect in Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

ICE Detainees Put in Solitary After Going on Hunger Strike…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Black Transgender Women Face Isolation and Abuse in North Carolina Prisons…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Detainees Reportedly Held in Conditions of Torture at “Alligator Alcatraz”…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Punished for Disabilities: Minnesota Schoolchildren Held in Isolation…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Pregnant Women in ICE Custody Being Shackled, Put in Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Exposing the “Real Scandal” Behind the Solitary Cell Where Epstein Died…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

After Decades in Solitary, Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers Navigate the Free World…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Death of ICE Detainee Restrained by Guards Is Ruled a Homicide…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Texas Places Woman in Solitary for Prison Cat Fundraiser…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

New York State Holds Children in Solitary Without Toilets…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Maduro Held in Solitary in Federal Jail Known for “Barbaric Conditions”…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Youth Face Prolonged Isolation in Connecticut’s Adult Prisons…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Report Exposes Torture at Florida Immigration Detention Facilities…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

NY Prisons Seek to Weaken Law Limiting Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Chaos and Death at Federal Prisons During Government Shutdown…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Pregnant Women in ICE Detention Face Isolation, Shackling, and Medical Neglect…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Children Held in Solitary for Months at Tennessee Juvenile Jail…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Former U.S. Representative George Santos Held in Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Lawsuit by HIV-Positive Transgender Woman Leads to Policy Change on Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Deaths in Solitary Confinement Spark Protests and Lawsuits…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Louisiana’s Angola Prison to Reopen Unit Notorious for Solitary Confinement Abuses…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

ICE Detainees Deported to El Salvador Report Dark Isolation Cells, Beatings, and Rape… and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

No Exit: Death and Despair in Texas’s “Double-Cell” Solitary Units

I Was an Incarcerated Nursing Assistant During Covid. This Is What I Saw.

U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Hearing on Solitary Confinement…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

American Psychological Association Resolution Calls for Ban on Youth Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week