Solitary confinement is a controversial topic. While correction officers argue it's a needed tool to uphold order in the prison system, those who support the HALT Act say it helps limit the harmful ...

Mr. Baig in a petition filed last year claimed he has been kept in solitary confinement at the Nashik central prison in Maharashtra since the last 12 years. He sought to be shifted out of solitary ...

The United Nation’s Nelson Mandela Rules stipulates solitary confinement (defined as 22 hours or more a day alone in a cell) should be only used in emergencies. Prolonged solitary confinement ...

They have walked off the job at 41 of the state’s 42 prisons. By Maria Cramer Restrictions on solitary confinement in New York State prisons were suspended Thursday and visits were canceled as ...

A coalition of nearly 100 criminal justice reform organizations, public defenders and other advocacy groups sent a letter to state officials calling the suspension of parts of a law banning solitary ...

The 'world's worst prison' have really put the 'solitary' in it's solitary confinement cells, this chilling footage shows. El Salvador's maximum security prison CECOT (Centre for the Confinement ...

A solitary confinement cell known all as “the bing,” at New York’s Rikers Island jail on Jan. 28, 2016. (Bebeto Matthews/AP) WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court’s liberal minority dissented on Monday ...

Over the past week, officers have walked off the job, citing an upsurge in violence at their facilities sparked by understaffing, 24-hour shifts and limits on the use of solitary confinement.

The department’s commissioner, Daniel Martuscello III, issued a memo Thursday stating that because of a prison-wide state of emergency, it will temporarily suspend parts of the controversial HALT ...

Mumbai, Feb 18 (PTI) The claim of solitary confinement by 2010 German Bakery blast case convict Himayat Baig was dismissed on Tuesday by the Bombay High Court which said there was no concern of any ...

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