The first-ever (and long-overdue) congressional hearing on solitary confinement convenes tomorrow, June 19, at 10 a.m. before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. You鈥檒l be able to watch a webcast of the hearing on the , and follow our using #stopsolitary.
Among others, the committee will hear from Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner , who is rethinking the use of solitary in Mississippi correctional facilities; , who spent years in solitary on Texas鈥� death row before being exonerated; , a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz who has studied and written about psychological trauma among prisoners held in long-term solitary confinement; and of the Justice Fellowship/Prison Fellowship Ministries, a leader in the conservative movement for criminal justice reform.
The 老澳门开奖结果, which fights the dangerous overuse of solitary confinement through its Stop Solitary campaign, will submit written testimony. Check back tomorrow for a recap of the hearing.
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