It is a mistake, I know, but I am going to do it anyway, to take anecdotal evidence and try to turn it into some profound revelation.
We have a greater responsibility. As a profession, as a people, we should know what happens after the prisoner is taken ...
We also have an obligation to look in the mirror, to look at our own human rights record.
African Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of white Americans.
I want to commend you for being one of the few Senators who knows directly about which we speak, because you visit these...
We want to make certain--or at least our policy is that those with serious mental illness will not be sent there in the ...
So we kind of look at the prison overcrowding and putting two people in that kind of space is making the situation much ...
We put far too many people inside solitary confinement, people who should be categorically excluded.
Some States are--we are going to hear from Commissioner Epps of Mississippi. Some States, like Mississippi, Ohio, and Ma...
Increasing the use of high-security segregation is counterproductive, often causing violence inside facilities and contr...
There are prisoners who are in solitary confinement for decades in this country.