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News Articles: solitary confinement

Georgia Department of Corrections Commissioner Tyrone Oliver, second from left, in a 2023 meeting of the Board of Corrections. Oliver is one of the named defendants in a civil rights case flowing from Georgia's solitary confinement practices.

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In a scathing order, federal judge finds Georgia prison officials in contempt of their own promises

A federal judge has found leaders of the Georgia Department of Corrections in contempt of a 2019 agreement GDC made with attorneys for people incarcerated in the state’s most extreme solitary confinement unit.

April 23, 2024
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  • Grant Blankenship
People gather for a rally to protest conditions at New York City's Rikers Island jail in October of 2022. The New York City Council voted Wednesday to ban most uses of solitary confinement in the city's jails.

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New York City Council votes to ban most instances of solitary confinement

Mayor Eric Adams may yet veto it, but if the bill becomes law, it will ban most uses of solitary confinement beyond four hours in New York City jails.

December 20, 2023
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  • Meg Anderson
Albert Woodfox was a former member of the Black Panthers who was put in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary for over 43 years.

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The Angola 3's Albert Woodfox, who survived decades of solitary confinement, dies

A wrongful murder conviction forced Woodfox to spend 43 years and 10 months in solitary confinement at Louisiana's Angola Prison. He has died at the age of 75.

August 05, 2022
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  • Shauneen Miranda
Nerissa Wright's son, Dontavis Mintz, died for reasons she still doesn't know while jailed at Ware State Prison near Waycross. The US Department of Justice is investigating the Georgia Department of Corrections largely because of such deaths.

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  • Law

A mother's son died in Georgia prison. The Department of Justice wonders if understaffing is why

The U.S. Department of Justice wants to know if understaffing in Georgia prisons is deadly. And a Georgia mother has questions about how — and why — her convicted son died at 24, just six years into his life sentence.

 

November 17, 2021
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  • Grant Blankenship
Pamela Winn, a registered nurse by training, was pregnant when incarcerated in 2008. After a miscarriage, she was put into solitary confinement for what she was told was medical observation. That eight months in solitary scarred her for life, she says.

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COVID precautions put more prisoners in isolation. It can mean long-term health woes

An estimated 300,000 people were held in solitary confinement in the U.S. at the height of the pandemic. Advocates are pushing to limit the practice, citing lasting harm to prisoners' health.

October 04, 2021
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  • Katja Ridderbusch

Georgia Agrees To Improve Solitary Confinement Conditions

Corrections officials have agreed to improve conditions for prisoners in Georgia's most restrictive solitary confinement facility, which an expert had...

January 09, 2019
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