Erin Patterson’s existence inside a tiny cell at Melbourne’s all women’s maximum security prison has been described as “torture”.
Under the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules ), it is defined as the confinement of ...
When Erin Patterson wakes up on December 25, there’ll be no Christmas tree. No gifts from loved ones and no festive meal.
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Disciplinary confinement in prison does more harm than good
When prison inmates break the rules, they may be placed in solitary confinement—sometimes for 24, 48 or 72 hours. Although it ...
Over a week after their emergency transfer from a Baltimore jail, women awaiting trial at the Maryland Correctional ...
As its latest defense in an ongoing court battle, New York’s state prison agency is arguing that the core of a landmark solitary confinement reform law does not apply to the vast majority of the ...
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