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Inside the Box Costs of Solitary Confinement in NM ACLU-NM 2013 INSIDE THE BOX THE REAL COSTS OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN NEW MEXICO’S PRISONS AND JAILS INSIDE THE BOX THE REAL COSTS OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN NEW MEXICO’S PRISONS AND JAILS A report by The New Mexico Center on Law …
Mandate of Special Rapporteur on Torture re CDCR Solitary Confinement United Nations 2013 NATIONS UNIES UNITED NATIONS HAUT COMMISSARIAT DES NATIONS UNIES AUX DROITS DE L’HOMME OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS PROCEDURES SPECIALES DU CONSEIL DES DROITS DE L’HOMME SPECIAL PROCEDURES OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS …
Damages for Improper Segregation Needs Resolution by Jury by The Second Circuit Court of Appeals held prison officials were entitled to a jury trial to determine damages caused by the failure to call witnesses at a disciplinary hearing. A prisoner at New York’s Attica Correctional Facility was charged with assault …
Publication • June 28, 2013
Overview of State and Fed. Ad. Seg. Policies Liman Pub. Interest Program 2013 Administrative Segregation, Degrees of Isolation, and Incarceration: A National Overview of State and Federal Correctional Policies June 2013 Hope Metcalf, Jamelia Morgan, Samuel Oliker‐ Friedland, Judith Resnik, Julia Spiegel, Haran Tae, Alyssa Work, and Brian Holbrook* A …
Publication • May 31, 2013
Investigation of Solitary Conditions at PA's SCI-Cresson DoJ 2013 U.S. Department of Justice Wa.rltington, DC 205.10 MAY 3 1 2013 The Honorable Tom Corbett Governor's Office 225 Main Capitol Building Harrisburg, PA 17120 Re: Investigation of the State Correctional Institution at Cresson and Notice of Expanded Investigation Dear Governor Corbett: …
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
Arkansas Prisoner’s Ad-Seg Reviews Held to be Meaningless; Case Remanded to Recalculate Damages by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld an Arkansas federal district court’s finding that state prison officials denied a prisoner meaningful reviews of his placement in administrative segregation, but ordered a recalculation of the lower …
Tenth Circuit: Terrorism Prisoners Lack Liberty Interest in Transfer to ADX by Derek Gilna Omar Rezaq, Mohammed Saleh, El-Sayyid Nosair and Ibrahim Elgabrowny, convicted of terrorism-related offenses and confined at the federal supermax ADX facility in Florence, Colorado, filed suit contending they had a liberty interest in “avoiding transfer without …
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
NY Federal Judge Deals Rare SHU Placement Defeat to BOP by Derek Gilna Viktor A. Bout, a Russian international arms dealer ensnared in a DEA sting in 2008, extradited from Thailand and held in the Special Housing Unit (SHU) of the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York, won …
Solitary Confinement Subject of Unprecedented Congressional Hearing by Alex Friedmann by Alex Friedmann1 It’s an awful thing, solitary. It crushes your spirit and weakens your resistance more effectively than any other form of mistreatment. — U.S. Senator John McCain, on his treatment as a P.O.W.2 On June 19, 2012, the …
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
Tenth Circuit Holds Due Process Requires Meaningful Segregation Reviews by Brandon Sample Prisoners indefinitely confined to administrative segregation are entitled to meaningful, periodic reviews of their segregation status, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit held on June 20, 2011, while granting qualified immunity to the prison official …
California Prisoners Seek End to Long-Term Segregation, Oppressive SHU Conditions by There are many forms of political and social protest. They can be purely for the sake of being disruptive or they can aim for resolution of a particular issue. Of course, even when they seek the latter they invariably …
Article • June 15, 2012 • from PLN June, 2012
$47,500 Awarded to Massachusetts Prisoner Held in Segregation Without Hearing by On January 27, 2012, a Massachusetts U.S. District Court awarded $47,500 to a prisoner for due process violations that resulted in 375 days of solitary confinement. Massachusetts state prisoner Albert Ford filed a civil rights action alleging that his …
Solitary Confinement Fact Sheat NAMI 2012 Solitary Confinement FACT SHEET In 1890, the United States Supreme Court first attempted to declare solitary confinement unconstitutional. Over a century later, the benefits of solitary confinement—whether used for “administrative,” “disciplinary” or “protective” purposes—remain unestablished. But our nation’s correctional facilities are using solitary confinement, …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
Ten Years of Sham Segregation Reviews Result in $4,846 Damage Award for Arkansas Prisoner by An Arkansas state prisoner has been awarded $4,864 in damages for spending almost ten years in administrative segregation (ad seg). David Williams is no angel. While serving time for murder, he was convicted of killing …
Article • November 15, 2011
$3,500 Settlement Reached in Double Suit Claiming Due Process and Human Rights Violations by A $3,500 settlement was reached in a consolidated agreement arising from two separate suits filed by Bernard E. Berton, Jr. against the District of Columbia Department of Corrections. The first case arose when Berton, a prisoner …
Article • November 15, 2011
New York Prison Disciplinary Conviction Upheld by On June 9, 2011, New York’s Third Judicial Appellate Court affirmed a prisoner’s disciplinary conviction. Scott Irwin received a misconduct report after a scuffle with a guard that resulted in the discovery of a shank. Irwin was sanctioned initially to 30 months of …
Louisiana Court Of Appeals Overturns Strip Tier Cell InjunctionOverturns by Matthew Clarke Louisiana Court Of Appeals Overturns Strip Tier Cell Injunction By Matt Clarke On June 20, 2007, a Louisiana state court of appeals overturned a district court’s granting of an injunction against prison officials placing the prisoner into a …
California Federal Court Refuses to Dissolve Most of Orantes Injunction by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke On July 23, 2007, a federal district court in California issued an opinion declining to dissolve the injunction issued in Orantes-Hernandez v. Meese, 685 F.Supp. 1488 (C.D.CA 1988), 919 F.2d 549 (9th Cir. 1990), …
Article • July 15, 2011
Indefinite Confinement of New Jersey Prisoner for 1990 Assault Overturned by The Appellate division of New Jersey’s Superior Court has held that the New Jersey Department of Corrections ( NJDOC), “does not have the legal authority to continue to keep” a prisoner who has been in confinement for twenty years …
Tenth Circuit Vacates Class Certification in Jail Conditions Suit; Case Settles Following Remand by Mark Wilson On February 4, 2009, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a Colorado sheriff’s interlocutory appeal challenging a class certification order and remanded the case for further proceedings, where it eventually settled in April …
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