solitary confinement
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SC Jail Probed After Man “Eaten Alive” by Rats
The DOJ launched a civil rights investigation into South Carolina jails after the death of Lason Butler.
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New Developments involving Children Housed in Infamous Prison in Louisiana
On Friday, a judge ordered Louisiana to remove incarcerated minors from the state’s maximum-security adult prisons.
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Democratic Lawmakers, Say It’s Time To End Solitary Confinement!
Representatives Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman and others, introduced legislation to end the “inhumane” practice of solitary confinement in Federal Prisons.
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Brittney Griner Reportedly Sent to ‘Slave-Like’ Russian Prison
‘It is literally the harshest colony in the whole Russian prison system,’ former inmate and Pussy Riot member Nadya Tolokonnikova said.
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Florida Inmate Starves to Death, Unable to Reach His Food after Officers Paralyzed Him
For five days, his cries for help were ignored and the food trays piled up.
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Rikers Island Hunger Strike Planned By Inmates Ahead of President Biden’s NY Visit
In a handwritten note, a hunger strike would protest treatment from the Department of Corrections and the courts.
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Former Chicago Cop Who Killed Laquan McDonald in 2014 Will Be Released From Prison Early
Jason Van Dyke was convicted of second-degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated assault for the murder of the 17-year-old teenager in 2014