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"New York State Passes the Nation's Strongest Anti-Solitary Legislation
After a Decade of Activism, the HALT Solitary Confinement Act Is Signed into Law by an Embattled Governor Cuomo

By Veronica Riccobene | April 8, 2021

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National Association of Social Workers

"Witness to Human Torture": On Both Sides of the Prison Walls, Social Workers Confront Solitary Confinement

November 3, 2017November 30, 2017 Valerie Kiebala
Frontline: 'Last Days of Solitary'

Esther Lim, a social worker employed by the ACLU to monitor LA County jails, was meeting with an incarcerated man in an attorney meeting room in 2011 when she heard what sounded like a fight. She looked through a window to see two deputies repeatedly beating an incarcerated man, James Parker, and shocking him with […]