US Supreme Court declines to hear case of Texas prisoner held in solitary confinement for 27 years

The nation’s high court declined to hear Dennis Hope’s appeal of a Court of Appeals decision to dismiss his Eighth Amendment challenge to his imprisonment in solitary confinement for nearly three decades.

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