Georgia detainee with prosthetic legs who objected to flooded cell sent to solitary

Rodney Taylor recently spent three days in what CoreCivic calls a "restrictive housing unit" at Georgia's Stewart detention center, after refusing to enter his cell because a leak had left the floor with about an inch of water. That would be a potential disaster for Taylor, since his battery-powered, microprocessor-controlled prosthetic legs can't get wet...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/31/georgia-detainee-double-amputee-solitary-confinement

 

After spending 22 years in solitary for stealing a hat, man urges end to psychological torture in prison | TheHill

"I know what it's like to be tortured and I know that many people are still being tortured."

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/mental-health/553351-after-spending-22-years-in-solitary-for-stealing-a

A British judge said US prisons are dangerously inhumane. Sadly, she's right

...According to the Prison Policy Initiative, an estimated 37% of people incarcerated in US state and federal prisons have a diagnosed mental illness, as do an estimated 44% of incarcerated people in local jails. And studies have shown that approximately half of all suicides and incidents of self-harm in American prisons and jails occur among people held in solitary confinement...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/09/a-british-judge-said-us-prisons-are-dangerously-inhumane-sadly-shes-right

One of America's harshest isolation units was exposed by a desperate, handwritten account from the inside - NBC News

A Georgia solitary confinement unit was filled with the "cacophony of prisoner screams and cries for help," a prisons expert said after visiting...
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/one-america-s-harshest-isolation-units-was-exposed-desperate-handwritten-n969531

More than 4,000 mentally ill inmates held in solitary in US – report - the guardian

A Yale law school survey found that prisoners with mental health problems are kept in isolation for at least 22 hours a day More than 4,000 prisoners with serious mental illness are being held in solitary confinement in US prisons, according to new research, despite the knowledge that holding people in isolation exacerbates mental problems and can even trigger them.....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/10/mental-health-inmates-solitary-confinement-us-prisons

U.S. Historians Are Fighting to Stop ICE From Erasing Records of Agency's Treatment of Immigrants - Newsweek

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency wants to destroy years' worth of data, including records on sexual abuse reports, solitary confinement and deaths in custody. .....
https://www.newsweek.com/us-historians-are-fighting-stop-ice-erasing-records-agencys-treatment-1049158

‘No relief in sight’: Hundreds of Virginia inmates languish in solitary confinement for years, groups find - The Washington Post: Perspective

An ACLU report and inmates' letters counter the state's claim that it is a national model. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/no-relief-in-sight-hundreds-of-virginia-inmates-languish-in-solitary-confinement-for-years-groups-find/2018/05/22/0524ff56-5e01-11e8-a4a4-c070ef53f315_story.html