Entries tagged with “Solitary confinement”
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…
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…