{"id":9215,"date":"2012-06-25T13:31:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T17:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=9215"},"modified":"2012-06-25T13:31:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T17:31:45","slug":"solitary-confinement-is-driving-men-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=9215","title":{"rendered":"Solitary confinement is “driving men insane”"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Times<\/em>,<\/a> which later in the week had a passionate editorial on the same subject:<\/p>\n

Solitary confinement “is inhumane and by its design it is driving men insane,” a former inmate who spent 18 years in prison in Texas, a decade of that time in isolation on death row before being exonerated, told a Senate panel in a hearing on Tuesday.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The practice, which is widespread in American prisons, has also been the target of a growing number of lawsuits, including a class-action suit filed on Monday on behalf of mentally ill inmates held in solitary at ADX, the federal super-maximum-security prison in Florence, Colo.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Times, which later in the week had a passionate editorial on the same subject: Solitary confinement “is inhumane and by its design it is driving men insane,” a former inmate who spent 18 years in prison in Texas, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[161,42],"class_list":["post-9215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-civil-rights-lawsuits","tag-class-action-lawsuits"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t