• Vice News spoke to prison strike organizer Bennu Hannibal from his solitary confinement cell at the William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility in Alabama. The action, which started on September 9th, is said to involve over 24,000 people and constitute the biggest prison strike in the nation’s history. • A grandmother is suing the Utah […]
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NY Prison System Opens Unit for Mentally Ill
Two years after litigation forced it to take action, the New York State corrections department is opening a small, dedicated unit for mentally ill offenders. Like thousands of others across the country, residents of this unit are likely to have been held in solitary confinement, which is currently the U.S. prison system’s treatment of choice for inmates […]