Solitary Confinement
The Solitary Confinement section examines the use, impact, and controversies surrounding the practice of isolating inmates from the general population. This directory provides articles and resources on the psychological effects, legal considerations, and best practices for managing solitary confinement within correctional facilities. Understanding solitary confinement is crucial for balancing security needs with the mental health and rights of inmates. For more on inmate management, explore our section on facility management.
Officials asked for more staff after a High Desert State inmate was fatally stabbed with a prison-made shank by another prisoner who escaped his separation cage
The policy and procedure changes for solitary confinement were presented at a meeting, during which the public referred to the practice as torturous
His original 7-year prison term in 1994 was extended with additional sentences totaling 90 years for assaulting correctional officers, including throwing bodily fluids
As states rethink the use of solitary confinement, a prisons oversight group is reshaping national accreditation standards to ease such procedures
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There are almost 60K prisoners in, housed in 54 prisons throughout the state
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As of mid-October, 52 inmates were being held in solitary confinement in Connecticut prisons
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Gary Ridgway will have more freedom and social contacts at a federal prison in Colorado where he has been sent by Wash. DOC officials
Study found that 70 men, or 0.5 percent of the overall male inmate population in Connecticut, were held in administrative segregation in 2013
Hearings are scheduled Friday in state District Court for two Penitentiary of New Mexico inmates who have filed petitions that they hope will lead prison officials to remove them from solitary confinement
Comes after state agreed to pay $2.5M to family of mentally ill man who died after being in solitary confinement
Prison reform advocates who have spent years campaigning against solitary confinement are counting on a powerful new ally in their quest to end the practice — Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy
Contend holding an inmate in solitary confinement for an extended period of time could “amount to torture”
A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said evidence shows that Lumumba Incumma has never received any meaningful review of his solitary confinement
Federal lawsuit called the practice unconstitutionally “cruel, inhumane, offensive to basic human decency”
County jails aren’t Best Westerns, but they needn’t be hell holes either
Attorney: 65-paged report “tells me people are pretty desperate to be anywhere else, besides there.’'
All but one man agreed to suspend the hunger strike when the warden agreed to lift some of the restrictions
SAS Initiative would focus on analyzing use of segregation and recommendations for its reduction
New policy means offenses that could have resulted in years in solitary now will have a cap of 60 days
The Department of Corrections and the unions representing officers say they don’t use solitary confinement
A whistleblower is claiming that numbers reported by the Colorado Department of Corrections about success rates with reducing the number of mentally ill inmates are “overstated”
Agency that oversees jails outlined its proposed changes to rules governing nation’s second-largest jail system
Changes come as concerns grow over use of solitary confinement
Bill would require inmates receive an initial hearing within 72 hours of being placed in isolation
North Carolina inmate with mental illness who had been held in solitary confinement died of thirst, according to an autopsy report
Inmates with serious mental illnesses are kept isolated in small cells for 23 hours a day or more, often with little or no treatment or human interaction
If members denounce their affilitations, they gain the possibility of leaving segregation
State settled lawsuit filed by inmate who claimed he faced retaliation after sticking up for other convicts at SCI Pittsburgh
More than 90 percent of NYC jail inmates in solitary confinement aren’t getting their legally mandated one hour of daily recreation