Shedding light on the federal intervention that is keeping Paul Manafort off Rikers Island, a series of letters made public Tuesday show that the government appeared to credit Manafort’s complaints about his pretrial conditions.
Read moreA California man was freed from prison after serving 23 years of a life sentence on a joyriding conviction, including eight years in solitary confinement for possessing a book.
Read moreWaiting in solitary confinement to learn his sentence, Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman failed to persuade a federal judge Monday to grant him outdoor exercise time and access to the jail commissary.
Read moreA class of inmates represented by the American Civil Liberties Union brought a federal lawsuit Monday to stop solitary confinement at two maximum-security prisons in Virginia, arguing that a program meant to return prisoners to the general population is actually a veiled attempt at keeping them in solitary.
Read morePharmaceutical honcho Martin Shkreli has been banished to solitary confinement amid allegations he was running his drug company from federal prison using a contraband smartphone, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
Read moreClaiming lasting damage from prison isolation units, two Muslim former federal inmates urged a federal judge Thursday to strike down the policy used against them as unconstitutional.
Read moreExpert witnesses took the stand Wednesday for a second day of hours-long testimony in Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian’s case against the Islamic Republic of Iran, where he was held captive for a year and a half.
Read moreFor 18 months, journalist
Jason Rezaian wasted away in captivity. He lost 40 pounds in as many days in an Iranian
solitary confinement cell, suffered from pulmonary illnesses, developed
infections too personal to describe in a public court, and contemplated
suicide. His mother and brother–Mary and Ali Rezaian–described him as “the
life of the party” before his capture, but Rezaian said he’s now an anxious man,
still recovering from lingering trauma three years later.
Finding the state had violated previous settlement agreements, a federal judge issued two orders Friday requiring California to revise its prison practices, including increased group activity time for inmates and less time confined to their cells.
Read moreCurrently imprisoned at a detention center in Virginia, accused Russian spy Maria Butina asked a federal judge on Tuesday to move her out of solitary confinement as she awaits an upcoming hearing in Washington, D.C.
Read moreCiting legitimate concerns that an escape attempt could follow, a federal judge refused Thursday to let Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman hug his wife before the start of his drug-trafficking trial.
Read moreA mentally ill man imprisoned after stealing $1 and a hat claims in a civil rights lawsuit that Illinois prison officials tortured him by putting him in solitary confinement for two decades, where he self-mutilated himself, including slicing off his testicle and hanging it on his cell door.
Read moreAfter the Supreme Court shot down a challenge to the use of solitary confinement in prison, Justice Sonia Sotomayor voiced alarm Tuesday about depriving inmates of daylight for months and years.
Read moreThe 10th Circuit affirmed summary judgment of qualified immunity for Kansas prison officials who kept Richard Grissom in solitary confinement for nearly 20 years, “because at the time of Grissom’s confinement there was no clearly established law that would have alerted them that his asserted constitutional rights were being violated.”
Read moreTwo years into its legal fight over Georgia prison inmates who suffer for years in solitary confinement, the Southern Center for Human Rights laid out an expert’s findings about the practice in a letter to the state.
Read moreA man with mental problems who spent nearly his entire 13 months in solitary confinement filed a federal class action against Chelan County, Washington, and top officials, claiming their treatment of troubled inmates violates the Eight Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.
Read moreAs New York readies for a federal trial of the notorious drug lord later this year, El Chapo’s 28-year-old wife complained outside the courthouse Tuesday about her husband’s confinement.
Read moreThree disabled Kern County, California, teens claim in a federal class action that juvenile-detention staffers abused them with pepper spray, prolonged solitary confinement, excessive force, painful prone restraint holds and denial of education.
Read moreThe only person convicted in the United States in connection with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is suing President Donald Trump over conditions at a federal prison, where he alleges he experiences “psychological torture” while kept in total isolation.
Read moreA Second Circuit judge objected Wednesday that prison officials will get immunity after subjecting an inmate named Almighty Supreme Born Allah to lengthy stints in solitary confinement.
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