Entries tagged with “Solitary confinement”
Policy Issues
Human Rights
,Conditions on Death Row
,May 24, 2022
Florida Becomes Latest State to End Permanent Death-Row Solitary Confinement After Settlement of Conditions Lawsuit
Florida has joined the growing number of states that have ended automatic permanent solitary confinement for prisoners sentenced to…
Policy Issues
Human Rights
,Apr 11, 2023
NEW RESOURCES: Human Rights and the Death Penalty
The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), with the support of the Foreign Office of the Federal Government of Germany, recently undertook a project examining the U.S. death penalty through a human rights lens. DPIC has added a series of human rights pages to its website, reframing three aspects of the death penalty – race, conditions of confinement, and executions – in light of human rights norms and…