Richard Durbin actually said...

We think the Subcommittee's work signals a new approach and thinking about human rights in this country.

Senator Durbin highlights the Subcommittee's role in advancing human rights.

12/15/2009

More Richard Durbin Quotes

Nowhere is the damaging impact of incarceration on vulnerable children more obvious than when it involves solitary confinement.

That is why the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has called for a ban on solitary for children under 18.

We must address the overcrowding crisis in Federal prisons that made prisons more dangerous and dramatically increased the inmate-to-correct...

I do not believe juveniles should be placed in solitary confinement except under the most exceptional circumstance.