Though there’s still much work to be done, the settlement marks a critical step for prison reform.
Amy Fettig
Amy Fettig is senior staff counsel for the ACLU’s National Prison Project and directs the ACLU’s Stop Solitary campaign, which seeks to end the practice of long-term isolation in our nation’s prisons, jails, and juvenile detention centers.
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Eight Principles for Reforming Solitary Confinement
How we can reduce, make more humane, and ultimately eliminate a practice that, in Justice Kennedy’s words, drives prisoners “to the edge of madness”