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#solitaryconfinement

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The USA Potato

NY Prison Officials Refuse to Comply with Law Limiting Solitary Confinement

New York prison officials have continued to violate the HALT Act, which restricts the use of solitary confinement.

murica.website/2025/08/ny-pris

murica.websiteNY Prison Officials Refuse to Comply with Law Limiting Solitary Confinement – The USA Potato
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#haltsolitaryconfinementact#NewYork#News
kriykat

Inside US Detention-Center Brutality
consortiumnews.com/2025/04/09/
An inside look at a Miami detention center where ICE sends immigrants targeted for detention and deportation under the Trump-Vance plan. Mark Dow reports. By Mark Dow Common Dreams “Please make this go viral. . . . Please help us.”…
#Politics #CivilRights #Commentary #HumanRights #Immigration #Legal #Protests #Racism #Torture #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #UnitedNations #BureauOfPrisons(bop) #MarkDow #MiamiHerald #OsirissAzahaelVázquezMartínez #PresidentDonaldTrump #SolitaryConfinement #U.s.ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement(ice) #VicePresidentJdVance

Consortium News · Inside US Detention-Center BrutalityAn inside look at a Miami detention center where ICE sends immigrants targeted for detention and deportation under the Trump-Vance plan. Mark Dow reports. By Mark Dow Common Dreams "Please make this go viral. . . . Please help us." Those are the words of Osiriss Azahael Vázquez Martínez in
Religion Rights & Peace

Book Launch: Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement by Christopher Blackwell & Deborah Zalesne,April 24, 2025, 6:30- 8:30 pm ET. Register. in-person in #NYC & #online. Blackwell…will be in conversation with advocates against #solitaryconfinement: Johnny Perez of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture & Jessica Sandoval & Anisah Sabur of the Unlock the Box Campaign. Moderated by Ending Isolation’s co-author, legal scholar Deborah Zalesne.” jewishcurrents.org/event/book-

Richard Quinn

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"She spent years supporting women and children in refugee camps in Syria,

Now she’s facing death by hanging.

#Iranian intelligence agents disappeared Kurdish social worker Pakhshan Azizi, held her in #solitaryconfinement for months, and #tortured her: they would repeatedly hang her, or bury her 10 metres underground – then pull her back up. Now, following a bogus trial, Iran sentenced Pakhshan to death.

We still have time to save her!"

AvaazWill Iran hang Pakhshan for helping women and children?Demand her freedom! Join this urgent global call to save Pakhshan’s life:
#Iran#Torture#DeathPenalty
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The Krononaut Moon Project 🌑

Tehching Hsieh, One Year Performance, September, 30 1978

❛❛ #Hsieh (went by Sam Hsieh at the time) sealed himself in his #studio in a #cell in #SolitaryConfinement for a year. His #food, #clothing, and #refuse needs were facilitated by Cheng Wei Kuong. ❜❜

🔗 new.artasiamerica.org/works/83
🔗 TehchingHsieh.net/oneyearperfo
🔗 nytimes.com/2009/02/19/arts/de

#Community#TimeTravel#Research
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Voting Access For All

Join us for a day dedicated to ending solitary confinement, an inhumane and ineffective practice. A catered lunch will be provided from 12–2pm (first come first served). This event is free and open to the public. Held at the Michigan League on campus at the University of Michigan.

Featuring Keynote Speaker Prof. Margo Schlanger, Michigan Professor of Law. Additional panelists from Open […]

https://votingaccessforall.org/2025/01/michigan-against-solitary-confinement-statewide-summit/

#annarbor#disabilityrightsmichigan#Michigan
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In 2022, organizers in California introduced a bill to have solitary confinement limited, and banned completely for pregnant people and other vulnerable groups. The bill was called the Mandela Act. For @bolts, Piper French writes about how the bill evolved beyond recognition — so much so that it now codifies in California law that it is permissible to use solitary confinement against pregnant people — and how that happened.

boltsmag.org/california-solita

Bolts · On Solitary Confinement, California Officials Side With the Prison System—Again - BoltsOrganizers wanted to ban the use of solitary confinement against pregnant Californians. They got something else entirely.
#California#Prison#Incarceration
Ms. Que Banh

Although Vietnam ratified the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in 2015, such ill-treatment continues in #Vietnamese #prisons. In September and October 2024, four #PrisonersOfConscience went on hunger strike for several weeks to protest their conditions of detention in Prison No. 6 in Nghe An. These four activists included Le Manh Hung, Dang Dinh Bach, Bui Van Thuan and Trinh Ba Tu. They denounced the use of “tiger cages” as a means of #SolitaryConfinement, which were cubes made of iron bars with about 1 meter of space to move around as well as the inability to exit and interact with other prisoners.

The Vietnamese authorities have also increasingly violated human rights beyond their borders through #TransnationalRepression. Blogger Duong Van Thai, who was #kidnapped from #Bangkok in April 2023, was sentenced to 12 years in prison and 3 years probation in a closed-door trial on October 30, 2024 with the charge of “propaganda against the state” (Article 117 of the Penal Code).

Another ongoing case of transnational repression is against Y Quynh Bdap, a #Christian and member of the #Ede ethnic group in Vietnam. Bdap fled to #Thailand in 2018 to escape religious and political #persecution by Vietnamese officials. He was granted #RefugeeStatus by the UN refugee agency. But, under pressure from the Vietnamese government, the Thai police arrested Bdap in June 2024 with the threat of #extradition back to Vietnam.

Besides the case of Duong Van Thai kidnapped in Bangkok in 2023, there were two other cases of transnational kidnapping, which occurred in #Berlin in 2017 (Trinh Xuan Thanh) and in Bangkok in 2019 (Truong Duy Nhat). The three kidnappings happened under the purview of Mr. Tô Lâm, who was Minister of Public Security from 2016 to 2024. With these cases of transnational repression, the Vietnamese authorities are testing how far it can extend its power to #SilenceActivists.

viettan.org/en/prisoners-2024/

viettan.org/en/prisoners-2024/

Vietnam Prisoners of Conscience 2024 Report
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#AsianMastodon#Vietnam#TootSEA
DC Books to Prisons

An article in @reasonmagazine (Reason Magazine) discusses the irony of a book by prisoners being banned in state prisons in Texas.

The book details prisoners' experiences with solitary confinement. Reason's article notes that: "Studies on the long-term effects of solitary confinement attest to the brutal nature described in many of the letters."

reason.com/2024/10/17/these-te

Reason.com · These Texas Inmates Wrote a Book. Then the Prison System Banned It.By Kevin Garcia-Galindo
#censorship#book#anthology
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