Solitary Confinement

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July 3, 2023
Children as young as 11 are confined alone to cells the size of parking spaces up to 23 hours a…
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March 2, 2023
A group of human rights attorneys wants the United Nations to review why Black Americans spend so much time in…
August 5, 2022
Albert Woodfox, a former inmate who spent decades in isolation at a Louisiana prison and became a prison reform advocate…
Alabama, Juvenile, theGrio.com
June 10, 2022
America’s first penitentiary was established in Philadelphia in 1790, and it contained the nation’s first solitary confinement cells.
August 12, 2019
R. Kelly is experiencing severe anxiety over the accusations that he had abusive sexual encounters with a number of underage…
May 18, 2018
[griojw id=”ER4qSFxK” playerid=”GqX43ZoG”]Johnny Perez used to speak to himself in solitary confinement, just to hear a human voice. The isolation
February 21, 2016
Albert Woodfox has spent nearly two-thirds of his life in solitary confinement.
January 25, 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Monday he will ban the use of solitary confinement for juvenile and low-level
October 22, 2015
A rap video that was filmed in prison and made it to WorldStarHipHop.com landed seven South Carolina inmates in trouble,…
June 8, 2015
Kalief Browder, 21, hung himself with an air conditioning cord on Saturday after he lost his battle with depression that
February 14, 2015
theGrio REPORT - Apparently in the South Carolina prison system, accessing Facebook is a serious offense - as serious as…
March 21, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - The tragic story of Jerome Murdough—a homeless Harlem man who was arrested for trespassing and literally baked…
October 4, 2013
MSNBC - Herman Wallace, a member of the “Angola 3,” died Friday morning, three days after a federal judge overturned…
October 2, 2013
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A 71-year-old Louisiana prisoner who spent 41 years in solitary confinement and is now dying of…
June 30, 2010
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Nearly 50 Virginia prisoners are being held in perpetual isolation because they refuse to cut their…
May 10, 2010
JARRATT, Virginia (AP) - The rule took effect on Dec. 15, 1999. Inmates had two choices: cut their hair no…