I am asking--let me be more specific.
We have a greater responsibility. As a profession, as a people, we should know what happens after the prisoner is taken ...
Solitary confinement makes our criminal justice system criminal.
It strikes me that it raises a serious question.
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...
There are prisoners who are in solitary confinement for decades in this country.
Increasing the use of high-security segregation is counterproductive, often causing violence inside facilities and contr...
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 ...