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Cuomo signs legislation limiting solitary confinement in state institutions Updated Apr 01, 12:52 PM; Posted Apr 01, 12:52 PM The interior of the former Arthur Kill Correctional Facility is shown Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017. (Staten Island Advance/Shira Stoll)Staff-Shot Facebook Share STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York took a major step Thursday limiting its use of solitary confinement in the state’s jail and prison systems. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term (HALT) Solitary Confinement Act after it passed the the State Legislature. Cuomo said the legislation will “...

In November 2019, structured intervention units (SIUs) officially replaced solitary confinement in Canada. Prior to SIUs, solitary confinement operated through administrative segregation and disciplinary segregation. The new system claimed to add safeguards, mental health supports and provide prisoners with four hours outside their cells per day, including two hours of meaningful interaction. Despite being in place for over a year, recent data shows this system is a failure: one in 10 prisoners in SIUs experience torture. It is crucial for corrections to respond to this human rights failure....

10 March 2021 Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 Prison authorities have repeatedly denied seriously ill Jehovah's Witness prisoner of conscience Shamil Khakimov the specialised medical treatment he needs. The 70-year-old has a bad leg "which smells like rotten meat" and has had coronavirus symptoms. The UN Mandela Rules for prisoners' treatment say medical decisions must be made by doctors, and the UN Human Rights Committee and the UN Committee against Torture have both called for Tajikistan to implement the Rules. Yet the prison governor told Forum 18: "I do not know what the Mandela Rules are." A Su...

5 March 2021 Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 Independent imam Sirojiddin Abdurahmonov, who was also jailed in 2010, was jailed in February for five and a half years along with an unknown number of others. Conscientious objector Rustamjon Norov's appeal against a three and a half year jail sentence is due on 11 March, and a judge has refused to explain why he allowed a Russian Orthodox nun with no connection to the case to testify for the prosecution. On 12 February, a court in the capital Dushanbe jailed Imam Sirojiddin Abdurahmonov (widely known as Mullo Sirojiddin) for five years and six months, a...

Garland Must Commit to Finishing Obama's Work on Solitary | Opinion Tammie Gregg , director, ACLU's Stop Solitary Campaign On 2/26/21 at 6:00 AM EST Merrick Garland's nomination to serve as U.S. attorney general comes at a critical time in our history. Over the past year, millions of Americans have taken to the streets to demand an end to the brutality and systemic racism that has plagued all of our nation's institutions—including the criminal legal system—since its inception. Heeding these righteous calls for justice could solidify Garland as one of the most significan...