New Video: UN Torture Expert Juan Mendez on Solitary Confinement
Juan E. Mendez is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Under a mandate from the General Assembly’s Human Rights Council,...
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UN: Solitary Confinement in the U.S. Can Be Torture, Force-Feeding Unacceptable
The use of solitary confinement in California prisons can amount to “cruel punishment, even torture.” This is according to a recent news release from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner...
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Seven Days in Solitary [10/27/13]
The following roundup features noteworthy news, reports and opinions on solitary confinement from the past week that have not been covered in other Solitary Watch posts. • The Associated Press reports...
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Activists Urge U.S. Government to Grant UN Torture Expert Access to New...
Solitary confinement cell in a New York state prison. In preparation for Human Rights Day tomorrow, groups opposing solitary confinement have sent letters to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and New...
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UN Investigator Says Long-Term Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons...
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan Méndez has concluded that the state of New York violated the rights of three incarcerated men “to be free from torture” by locking them up them in...
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UN Torture Investigator Barred from Visiting American Supermax Prisons
Juan Méndez’s mandate is to investigate and report on torture wherever it takes place, including U.S. prisons. More than two years ago, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Juan Méndez, asked the U.S....
View ArticleUN Human Rights Experts (Again) Push for Access to U.S. Prisons, Call for...
The United Nations’ top experts on the human rights of people in detention are calling on the United States to open the doors of its prisons to an official visit. Juan E. Méndez, the United Nations...
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• According to the Hartford Courant, Judge Stefan Underhill has called the conditions “unconstitutional” for people held on Connecticut’s death row. While Connecticut has abolished capital punishment,...
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• The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the suicide rate in California prisons has reached an all-time high this year, in what the Secretary of the California Department of Corrections and...
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• The Montgomery Advertiser reported that the families of four men who committed suicide in Alabama prisons in the past two years have filed a wrongful death lawsuit, claiming they faced cruel and...
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• On the Last Week Tonight show, John Oliver discussed the alarmingly high rates of coronavirus in prisons and jails across the U.S., as the New York Times reported that the five largest known...
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