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From Solitary Watch: ACLU Takes a Strong Stand Against Solitary Confinement

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

From Solitary Watch: ACLU Takes a Strong Stand Against Solitary Confinement News from a Nation in Lockdown February 25, 2011 by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella > http://solitarywatch.com/2011/02/25/aclu-takes-a-strong-stand-against-solitary-confinement/ Over the last two weeks, the ACLU has adopted a much more vigorous stance against solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails. It has launched a listserv to bring together lawyers, activists, scholars, journalists, and others interested in the subject, and asked the UN Human Rights Council to look into solitary?s torturous effects on prisoners in the United States. On Thursday David Fathi, who heads the organization?s National Prison Project wrote a post on the ACLU?s Blog of Rights, which we reproduce in full below, setting out the group?s broad new approach to this issue...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 27, 2011 (boomark / email).