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Notable NYU event on solitary confinement

By Douglas A. Berman

I am pleased to see here that an important prison issue which I fear gets too little attention, solitary confinement, will be the focus of a panel discussion hosted by New York University?s Wagner?s Students for Criminal Justice Reform on Tuesday March 23, 2010.  As detailed here, the panel discussion is titled ?Segregation and Solitary Confinement: Cruel and Unusual Punishment??, and the panel includes a host of leading experts on the topic.  Folks can RSVP here, and this text describing the issues to be covered comes from the event's promotionional materials: More than 25,000 people are confined in solitary confinement in the United States. An additional 50,000 to 80,000 are kept in restrictive segregation units, many of them in isolation...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 22, 2010 (boomark / email).