Solitary confinement is a form of imprisonment in which an incarcerated person lives in a single cell with little or no contact with other people. It...

time, often months or years. Solitary confinement first arose in the United States in the 1700s among religious groups like the Quakers, who thought isolation...

consequences for women that may differ from the way it affects men. Solitary confinement rates for women in the United States are roughly comparable to those for...

Solitary(Trans) Inmates in Gender-Inappropriate Facilities and Solitary Confinement". Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality. Archived from the original...

containing valuables. During his imprisonment, Browder was kept in solitary confinement for 800 days. Two years after his release, Browder hanged himself...

Solitary Watch is a web-based project that aims to bring public attention to the widespread use of solitary confinement in the United States. Its mission...

prisons than in hospitals in the United States. Mentally ill people are subjected to solitary confinement at disproportionate rates compared to the general...

(October 18, 2011). "Solitary confinement should be banned in most cases". "How Many Prisoners Are in Solitary Confinement in the United States?". February 2012...

Trinidad" is currently serving a 60-year sentence in solitary confinement in the United States at ADX Florence "Supermax" prison near Florence, Colorado with...

Following the murder of Clutts, Silverstein was transferred to the United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, where he was placed in solitary confinement. His security...

inmates are kept in administrative segregation; they are kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day. During their hour outside the cell, which can...

talk show created and hosted by John Oliver for HBO. The show takes a satirical look at the week in news, politics and current events. As of May 12, 2024...

immigrant prisons in the state of California. Solitary confinement is a common method used by ICE in detention centers. Throughout the United States, about 300...

awaiting trial in solitary confinement at the Northern Correctional Institution, a Supermax state prison in Somers, Connecticut, United States. His US trial...

that the allegations were untrue, according to the post-mortem report. Maudsley is the longest-serving British prisoner in solitary confinement. Robert...

The Terrorism Confinement Center (Spanish: Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, abbreviated CECOT) is a maximum security prison located in Tecoluca...

stoppages in Alabama prisons in January 2014 as part of the Free Alabama Movement have been in solitary confinement since the start of the labor strike...

typically involves up to 23-hour-per-day, solitary confinement for an indefinite period of time. Those incarcerated in supermax housing have minimal contact...

surprising even prosecutors. Judge Martin said Felipe must serve the sentence in solitary confinement. He forbade him to write or be visited by anyone except his...

he is subjected to five years in solitary confinement. Dega is sent to Devil's Island. Papillon is released from solitary as a weathered older man and...

Growing Up Locked Down: Youth in Solitary Confinement in Jails and Prisons in the United States (PDF). United States of America. pp. 131–132. ISBN 978-1-56432-949-3...

placed in solitary confinement, which remains an ongoing practice as of May 2019. In half of the cases, detainees were being punished, but in the other...

Sumell continues to be active in the movement to end the use of long-term solitary confinement in the United States. She continued as an advocate and...

of solitary confinement, the use of continual illumination to deprive sleep (listed in the Geneva Convention on Basic Human Rights, 1949) often in detention...

security. This method of prison operation involves the keeping of inmates in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day, and does not allow communal dining...

under the Selective Service Act of 1917. The pair of conscientious objectors, who were Christian Hutterites, were held in solitary confinement, beaten...

to Canada from a family vacation in Tunis. He was held without charges in solitary confinement in the United States for nearly two weeks, questioned,...

psychological torture - for example, the United Nations has stated that placing someone in solitary confinement for periods exceeding 15 consecutive days...

rations, solitary confinement and physical abuse severe enough as to cause the deaths of two Hutterite draftees.: 545  Eventually, because of the shortage...

solitary confinement for infractions. Georgia and Tennessee adopted sentencing by jury in 1816 and 1829, respectively. In contrast, northern states such...