Conditions On Death Row

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Reports

• American Civil Liberties Union, A Death Before Dying: Solitary Conditions on Death Row, July 2013.
• Solitary Watch, American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana, and Jesuit Social Research Institute/​Loyola University New Orleans, Louisiana on Lockdown: A Report on the Use of Solitary Confinement in Louisiana State Prisons, With Testimony From the People Who Live It, June 2019.
• David Cloud, et al., The Safe Alternatives to Segregation Initiative: Findings and Recommendations for the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, and Progress Toward Implementation, Vera Institute, May 2019 (with detailed dis­cus­sion of death row con­di­tions start­ing at page 71).
   

Newspaper Articles
 

• Joe Gyan Jr., After 6‑year legal bat­tle, Louisiana death row ​‘heat index’ suit near­ing final res­o­lu­tion, The Advocate, May 11, 2019.
• Edmund H. Mahony, U.S. Judge rules for­mer Connecticut death row inmate’s incar­cer­a­tion amounts to cru­el and unusu­al pun­ish­ment, Hartford Courant, August 28, 2019.
• Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Agrees to Move ​‘Qualifying’ Death Row Prisoners Out of Tomblike Unit, The Appeal, September 28, 2019.
• Susan Greene, The Gray Box: The inhu­man­i­ty of soli­tary con­fine­ment, Dart Society, February 2012, reprint­ed in the Colorado Independent on September 25, 2017; view the accom­pa­ny­ing video here.

Studies and Academic Research

• Andrea C. Armstrong, Death Row Conditions Through an Environmental Justice Lens, 70 Ark. L. Rev. 203 (2017).
• Christine Tartaro and David Lester, Suicide on Death Row, Journal of Forensic Sciences, Vol. 61, No. 6, November 2016.
• Mark D. Cunningham and Mark P. Vigen, Death row inmate char­ac­ter­is­tics, adjust­ment, and con­fine­ment: A crit­i­cal review of the lit­er­a­ture, Behavioral Sciences and the Law 20.1‐2 (2002): 191 – 210.

Other Resources

• Porter v. Clarke, 290 F. Supp. 3^d 518 (E.D. Va. 2018).