Conditions On Death Row
Additional Resources
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
- University of North Carolina, Death Row Conditions by State.
- Porter v. Clarke, 290 F. Supp. 3d 518 (E.D. Va. 2018).