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Nevada legislative news: Human rights at center of bill aiming to limit solitary confinement at Nevada prisons.
The HALT Act was passed to end long-term solitary confinement. Enforcing it is a whole new struggle.
The 107-page report, “Deadly Decline: Security Force Abuses and Democratic Crisis in Peru,” documents excessive use of force by security forces, due process violations and abuses against detainees, and failures in criminal investigations, as well as the entrenched political and social crisis that is eroding the rule of law and human rights in Peru. While some protesters were responsible for acts of violence, security forces responded with grossly disproportionate force, including with assault weapons and handguns. Forty-nine protesters and bystanders, including 8 children, were killed.
A federal judge certified a class action lawsuit allowing people who have been held in solitary confinement in Virginia to join the suit against the Virginia Department of Corrections.
Obviously, a civil suit here for wrongful death is going to go forward. i think if there's ever been a case of wrongful death when somebody you know, pull somebody's hair and winds up 20 days with no medical attention, losing weight, not eating and dies. i don't know a more open and shut case for wrongful death , but i hope they asked for more than just monetary damages. at some point, we've got to go for a systemic change. uh this is brute, brutal, brutal torture that the mandela rules. the united nations has says the psychological impact of the compounding psychological impact of prolonged i...