ACLU of North Carolina & Prisoner Legal Services Challenge NC's Use of Solitary Confinement
October 16, 2019
October 16, 2019
RALEIGH, North Carolina, Oct. 16 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina issued the following news release:
Four people who have spent years locked in solitary confinement in North Carolina prisons today filed a class-action lawsuit challenging the state's use of the practice - in which people are held in cells no bigger than a parking space for 22 to 24 hours a day with little to no human contact - as a violation of the state constitution's ban on cruel or unusual p . . .
Four people who have spent years locked in solitary confinement in North Carolina prisons today filed a class-action lawsuit challenging the state's use of the practice - in which people are held in cells no bigger than a parking space for 22 to 24 hours a day with little to no human contact - as a violation of the state constitution's ban on cruel or unusual p . . .