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Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted, and the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program is mentioned in a Wall Street Journal article about a report released by the Association of State Correctional Administrators and Liman Program that calls for limiting solitary confinement. State and federal prisons are holding as many as 100,000 inmates in solitary confinement or isolated housing, a figure that poses a "grave problem" for the criminal justice system, a study released Wednesday said. Read the article (subscription required).

Judith Resnik, the Arthur Liman Professor of Law, was interviewed on WNPR about a new Liman Report on solitary confinement. "Isolation isn't good for anyone -- not the communities from which people come, not the prison management inside, and surely and painfully not for the individual subjected to it." The survey starts with a statement from the Association of State Correctional Administrators, or ASCA. In the statement, ASCA calls the isolation of prisoners a "grave problem" in the United States, and pledges to change solitary confinement policy in their prisons. Read the full article.

Arthur Liman Professor of Law Judith Resnik is quoted, and the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program is mentioned in a New York Times article about a report released by the Association of State Correctional Administrators and Liman Program that calls for limiting solitary confinement. In a sign of how far the nation has moved from supporting solitary confinement for inmates, the leading organization for the nation’s prison and jail administrators on Wednesday called for sharply limiting or even ending its use for extended periods. Read the article.

The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School and the Association of State Correctional Administrators (ASCA) has released a new report outlining data on both the numbers and the conditions in restrictive housing nationwide.

The growing use of detention in the United States and around the world is the focus of the conference cohosted by the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program and the Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellowship Program.

On March 2, 2015, the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School submitted a statement to the Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections.

The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School submitted testimony to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights on December 9, 2014. The statement submitted was titled “Women in Detention: The Need for a National Agenda.”

A Liman Fellow from Yale Law School was among a team of people awarded a Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) award earlier this month at the Association of American Law Schools Clinical Conference in Puerto Rico.

The seventeenth annual Liman Public Interest Colloquium, Isolation and Reintegration: Punishment Circa 2014, will be held at Yale Law School on April 3, 2014.

Hope Metcalf, Director of the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program, and Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, submitted a statement for the hearing record titled “The Policies Governing Isolation in U.S. Prisons.”