AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File
Tyquine Lee, 28, spent over 600 days in solitary at Red Onion prison in Virginia from 2016 to 2018.
Red Onion is a supermax prison treated as an end of the line facility within the penal system.
61,000 adults and children are held in segregation in US prisons, according to the most recent data.
When Takeisha Brown finally got to visit her son, Tyquine Lee, at the Red Onion State Prison, Virginia, she didn t recognize him. I saw someone that wasn t my son. He was just so small. He was rambling in numbers. He had a language of his own.
Apr 1, 2021
The wall of Clinton Correctional Facility looms over the community of Dannemora in June 2015.
(Enterprise photo â Matthew Turner)
ALBANY (AP) New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation to end long-term solitary confinement in state prisons and jails, he announced Thursday.
Under the new law, prisons and jails will not be allowed to hold inmates in solitary confinement for more than 15 consecutive days. Solitary confinement will be banned entirely for several categories of prisoners including minors, people over 55, pregnant inmates and those with disabilities.
“Generations of incarcerated men and women have been subjected to inhumane punishment in segregated confinement with little to no human interaction for extended periods of time and many experience emotional and physical trauma that can last for years,” Cuomo said in a news release Thursday after signing the bill late the day before.
ALBANY (AP) New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation to end long-term solitary confinement in state prisons and jails, he announced Thursday. U