UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (Mandela Rules)

Seven Days in Solitary [2/18/19]

Valerie Kiebala
ADX Florence Towers

• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that three people in the custody of Georgia Department of Corrections died in just over a week. On February 4, 50-year-old Raymond Nelson was found dead in his cell from an apparent suicide at Calhoun State Prison. 27-year-old Daquan Young died on February 6 at Smith State Prison, allegedly as a […]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/28/18]

Valerie Kiebala
California Prisons - Solitary Confinement 7Days

• San Jose Inside reported on the settlement of the 2015 class action lawsuit Chavez v. County of Santa Clara, which challenged the use of solitary confinement at San Jose’s Main Jail as unconstitutional. The lawsuit alleged that many of those held at the Main Jail had not yet been convicted of the crime with which they […]