New Yale Survey Estimates Nearly 100,000 in Solitary Confinement in the U.S.

 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.