Just wanted to say hi and let you know the fight against solitary confinement continues. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) testified yesterday before the Inter-American Commission on the overuse and harmful effects of solitary confinement. Here's a few excerpts from an article covering the story:
WASHINGTON--(ENEWSPF)--March 12 - In a first-ever hearing on solitary confinement in the Americas, the American Civil Liberties Union today called on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to investigate the practice of solitary confinement in the United States.
"An investigation by the Commission will shed an international spotlight on the human and monetary costs of solitary confinement in the U.S. and other countries in the Americas. We hope this will lead our country to adopt more effective, more humane and less costly alternatives," said Steven Watt, senior staff attorney of the ACLU's Human Rights Program. "The United States should be a human rights leader, not an outlier."
In testimony submitted to the Commission at its hearing here today, the ACLU also asked the Commission, an autonomous body of the Organization of American States, to investigate the practice in other OAS member states, and to recommend that all governments in the Americas impose strict limitations on the practice, and in some instances, prohibit it.....
The Commission also heard the testimony of Juan E. Méndez, the U.N. special rapporteur on torture, whose global study on the issue calls for the prohibition of solitary confinement on juveniles and persons with mental disabilities and the absolute prohibition of any solitary confinement exceeding 15 days.....
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons recently announced its intention to conduct the first-ever review of the agency's use of solitary confinement. During testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last June, the Director of the Bureau said that, on any given day, more than 15,000 federal prisoners are in some form of isolation.
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Just wanted to say hi and let you know the fight against solitary confinement continues. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) testified yesterday before the Inter-American Commission on the overuse and harmful effects of solitary confinement. Here's a few excerpts from an article covering the story:
WASHINGTON--(ENEWSPF)--March 12 - In a first-ever hearing on solitary confinement in the Americas, the American Civil Liberties Union today called on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to investigate the practice of solitary confinement in the United States.
"An investigation by the Commission will shed an international spotlight on the human and monetary costs of solitary confinement in the U.S. and other countries in the Americas. We hope this will lead our country to adopt more effective, more humane and less costly alternatives," said Steven Watt, senior staff attorney of the ACLU's Human Rights Program. "The United States should be a human rights leader, not an outlier."
In testimony submitted to the Commission at its hearing here today, the ACLU also asked the Commission, an autonomous body of the Organization of American States, to investigate the practice in other OAS member states, and to recommend that all governments in the Americas impose strict limitations on the practice, and in some instances, prohibit it.....
The Commission also heard the testimony of Juan E. Méndez, the U.N. special rapporteur on torture, whose global study on the issue calls for the prohibition of solitary confinement on juveniles and persons with mental disabilities and the absolute prohibition of any solitary confinement exceeding 15 days.....
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons recently announced its intention to conduct the first-ever review of the agency's use of solitary confinement. During testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last June, the Director of the Bureau said that, on any given day, more than 15,000 federal prisoners are in some form of isolation.
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