I want to commend you for being one of the few Senators who knows directly about which we speak, because you visit these places.
African Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of white Americans.
I am trying to zero in on a specific question. Do you believe that confinement, solitary confinement, 23 hours a day, fi...
We have a greater responsibility. As a profession, as a people, we should know what happens after the prisoner is taken ...
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 profoun...
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 ...