Sentences with phrase «use of solitary confinement»

In response to this homicide verdict, government actors and social reformers have been looking at how the mentally ill, and in particular mentally ill women, can be better addressed by the prison system and at how to limit use of solitary confinement in prisons.
Criminal justice experts have said Hailey's defiance was a common reaction to the continued use of solitary confinement for difficult inmates, especially those with mental health problems.
In 2015, New York announced it had reached a landmark settlement with the New York Civil Liberties Union, which sued over the state's aggressive use of solitary confinement to discipline inmates.
Nor is there a look into reports of beatings, torture, and excessive use of solitary confinement after the escape, recounted in news articles and in a new report by the The Correctional Association of NY, a private watchdog group.
In an article that appears in the March 30 issue of The New Yorker, Gawande's article, «Hellhole,» examines the routine and rampant use of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and concludes, «all human beings experience isolation as torture.»
And there is no clearer manifestation of this than our routine use of solitary confinement — on our own people, in our own communities, in a supermax prison, for example, that is a thirty - minute drive from my door.
About Blog Solitary Watch is a nonprofit national watchdog group that investigates, documents, and disseminates information on the widespread use of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails.
The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale first collected data from state and federal corrections officials in 2014 and again, in more detail, last year, taking what amounts to a comprehensive census on the use of solitary confinement in the U.S. Researchers found that in the fall of 2015, at least 67,442 U.S. prisoners were kept in some kind of restricted housing.
Despite the growing consensus, some states, like Louisiana, still put a significant portion of their prisoners in isolation (though Louisiana officials claim their use of solitary confinement is closer to 8 percent when including state inmates being housed in county jails).
But perhaps most striking, researchers said, was how many states have come around to the idea of reducing the use of solitary confinement.
A new report from Yale Law School and the Association of State Correctional Administrators released Wednesday tries to fill the gaps in what we know about the use of solitary confinement in the United States.
• A bill that places new limits on the use of solitary confinement in Connecticut prisons is headed to Malloy for consideration following final passage in the House on the last day of the session.
The measure would provide greater transparency around the use of solitary confinement and prevent the Department of Correction from placing prisoners under 18 in the most punitive level of solitary confinement.
Cuomo proposed a series of criminal justice reforms, including eliminating cash bail for many low - level offenses; pursuing legislation that would cut back on time defendants are held in custody before trial; and reducing the use of solitary confinement in state prisons.
The mayor's announcement follows months of opposition to reforms of the troubled facility from the correction officers» union, which has argued that ending the use of solitary confinement for the jail's most violent inmates has led to increased levels of violence and more dangerous conditions for the officers.
In 2018, the state plans to close 1,200 solitary housing unit beds throughout New York State's prisons, in an effort to reduce the use of solitary confinement, he said.
New York City officials agreed to a plan that would eliminate the use of solitary confinement for all inmates 21 and younger, a move that would place the long - troubled Rikers Island complex at the forefront of national jail reform efforts.
NYCLU and the Cuomo administration announced a settlement designed to greatly reduce the use of solitary confinement in state correctional facilities.
She was speaking Wednesday on a conference call in which NYCLU and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration announced a settlement designed to greatly reduce the use of solitary confinement in state correctional facilities.
In his own statement, Cuomo said the settlement «should serve as a model for other states across the nation to follow in reforming the use of solitary confinement.
A recently formed coalition is calling for a reduction in the use of solitary confinement and what they refer to as a «culture of brutality» in the city's jail system.
The Correction Department has ended the use of solitary confinement for all inmates under 22 years old and allocated funds to expand public health services throughout the criminal justice system, with the aim of diverting more people with mental health and substance abuse problems from Rikers.
Under supervision by a federal monitor, Mr. de Blasio has made reforms on Rikers Island, including more training for officers, new procedures on the use of force and a reduction in the use of solitary confinement.
In 2016, the main New York City jail complex, Rikers Island, ended the use of solitary confinement for 16 - to 18 - year - olds, and Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced an end to punitive solitary confinement for people under age 21.
The list also includes reform to the bail system, ending the use of solitary confinement, and a bill to accelerate trials.
To truly address the issue of solitary confinement, Governor Cuomo should create a timeline for discontinuing the use of all solitary confinement and punitive segregation throughout the state prison system.
Previously, Brianna was field director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine, where she led campaign and field strategy in federal and state issue campaigns, including Maine's historic campaigns to end the use of solitary confinement in Maine prisons and implement marriage equality for LGBTQ Mainers through a state legislative efforts.
We've regularly been blogging about prison conditions and the use of solitary confinement in correctional facilities across Canada.
These new changes come in the wake of significant public outcry over the use of solitary confinement and subsequent scrutiny of the CSC's segregation practices.
In 2015, the B.C Civil Liberties Association and the John Howard Society of Canada jointly sued the federal government over the use of solitary confinement (often referred to as «administrative segregation»).
As we have regularly been blogging about, the use of solitary confinement in correctional facilities in Ontario has been in the news since the story of Adam Capay's plight at the Thunder Bay District Jail came to the public's attention earlier this year.
Last week we blogged about a trial that began at the B.C Supreme Court, reviewing the legality of Canada's use of solitary confinement.
The Commissioner recognized that management at the Kenora prison has done a good job of limiting the use of solitary confinement.
Starting in 2014, the Globe and Mail has reported extensively on the use of solitary confinement, and its effects on inmates.
We hope the new BC government will take this opportunity to reform prison law to be in compliance with the United Nations» Mandela Rules and abolish the use of solitary confinement in BC which is considered to be torture or cruel treatment if it is used for more... Read More
Solitary Confinement: «Abandon Every Hope, Ye who Enter» Stephanie Laskoski The United Nations has singled out for condemnation Canada's use of solitary confinement.
Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Province of Ontario involves allegations of Ontario's «over-reliance on the use of solitary confinement on minors in Ontario's youth justice facilities.»
The Office of the Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth released a report in 2015 entitled It's a Matter of Time, which provides details on the use of solitary confinement on children in Ontario.
The report takes issue with the use of solitary confinement in Ontario's youth justice facilities and advocates for greater safeguards and / or the complete eradication of the use of solitary confinement on children in Ontario.
11:30 Raji Mangat of West Coast LEAF on the historic legal challenge to the use of solitary confinement in Canada's federal prisons.
For immediate release — July 4, 2017 VANCOUVER — Today, an historic legal challenge to the use of solitary confinement in Canada's federal prisons goes to trial at the BC Supreme Court.
VANCOUVER — This morning, the BC Supreme Court released its judgment in an historic court case challenging the use of solitary confinement in Canada's federal prisons.
CASE SUMMARY This case was a Charter challenge to the use of solitary confinement in Canadian federal prisons.
This case was a Charter challenge to the use of solitary confinement in Canadian federal prisons.
In this report, CSC rejected the recommendation that they place limits on the use of solitary confinement and rejected the further inquest recommendation that their management be independently overseen.
In January 2015, the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, along with the John Howard Society of Canada, launched a constitutional challenge to the use of solitary confinement in Canada's federal prisons.
«The judgment found that the use of solitary confinement against indigenous prisoners and prisoners with mental illness is discriminatory,» she says.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z