Lincoln Hills

Seven Days in Solitary [7/09/2017]

Aviva Stahl
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• A federal judge has established guidelines for the amount of time that youth locked up at Wisconsin’s Lincoln Hills and Cooper Lake juvenile facilities can be held in solitary confinement. State officials have previously testified that children at the facilities have been held in solitary for more than 50 consecutive days; under the new guidelines children will […]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/29/2017]

Aviva Stahl
In this photo provided Tuesday June 3, 2008 by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, shows a jail cell identical to the one currently being occupied by Nick Bollea. Bollea, the son of wrestler Hulk Hogan, was sentenced to eight months in prison on charges stemming from a crash in Clearwater, Fla., that left his passenger critically injured. A judge on Tuesday June 3, 2008 turned down a request by Bollea to alter the conditions of his jail sentence. (AP Photo/Pinellas County Sheriff's Office)

•  Timothy Muise was released from solitary confinement at MCI Norfolk in Massachusetts after being sent there for two weeks for speaking by phone to a local radio station, on the topic of lack of accountability in the Department of Corrections. His placement in the hole “pending investigation” of what was classified as a lowest level disciplinary […]