Spurred by hunger strikes and protests over inmates being kept in solitary confinement for a decade or longer, California on Tuesday agreed to soften its approach to keeping inmates isolated in state...
Thousands of California inmates who have spent years in solitary confinement will move back into the general prison population as part of a lawsuit settlement with the state. The settlement,...
On Tuesday, 10 California inmates succeeded in stopping the decades-long use of indefinite solitary confinement in the state's prison system. In a landmark settlement to a class-action suit they...
An organization representing prison and jail administrators said Wednesday that the policy of keeping tens of thousands of inmates in solitary confinement was a serious problem that needed to be...
New limits on solitary confinement in California prisons are a long-delayed but welcome step in the evolution of a system that only recently subjected inmates to a degree of abuse that approached...
"'We've been tossed into the societal refuse heap. It's the landfill of humanity.'" It was 2013, and Daletha Hayden was reading aloud from an open letter written by her son. Those were dark days. Ian...
W hen Palestinian-American professor Steven Salaita received the e-mail that he was being fired from a tenured position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he was crushed. “Everything...
As Steven Salaita recounts it in his just-published book, “ Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom ,” on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 2014, he was “enjoying a typical Saturday: the...
More than 13 years after innocent Muslims faced prison abuses, "it is time to move the case forward" against former Attorney General John Ashcroft and others, two Second Circuit judges said Friday as...
The warnings began even before Bill de Blasio was sworn in as New York City’s mayor in January 2014. A safe New York depended on the aggressive policing tactics that began in the 1990s and flourished...
