Solitary confinement makes our criminal justice system criminal.
It strikes me that it raises a serious question.
I hope that that will lead to an honest evaluation of how we can continue to make for a safe prison system, one that is ...
We also have an obligation to look in the mirror, to look at our own human rights record.
When it is all over, let us write a record that we can be proud to tell our children about in terms of who we are and wh...
Today in the United States, more than 2.3 million people are imprisoned.
Do you believe that isolation, 23-hour isolation, has a negative impact on the mental health of an individual?
I went to Tamms, a state facility in Illinois, where we have isolation, and they took me into what was--almost an incred...
I have authored the Fair Sentencing Act, which finally reduced dramatically the disparity between crack and powder cocai...
So let us look at the numbers.
I have read stories about federal inmates and inmates at State facilities in isolation who have clearly reached a point ...