Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

Criminal Law

: The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

ACLU Urges UN to Take Action on Solitary Confinement in the United States

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

ACLU Urges UN to Take Action on Solitary Confinement in the United States February 21, 2011 Solitary Watch http://solitarywatch.com/2011/02/21/aclu-urges-un-to-take-action-on-solitary-confinement-in-the-united-states/ by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway The American Civil Liberties Union last week filed a statement with the United Nations? Human Rights Council, urging it to to ?address the widespread violations of the human rights of prisoners in the United States associated with solitary confinement and call for the adoption of appropriate measures to protect their human rights. The ACLU calls on the Council to urge the United States to take concrete and appropriate measures to end the egregious violations stemming from solitary confinement of prisoners...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 22, 2011 (boomark / email).