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Suit: Mentally ill NC inmate often pepper sprayed
Questions have been raised about the treatment of inmates in Unit One, a special 192-bed section at Central Prison known as “The Hole.” by Michael Biesecker/ from WNCN Lawyers for an inmate who suffers...
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New ACLU Report Examines Devastating Impact of Solitary Confinement on Women
By Victoria Law/ From Solitary Watch Today, the ACLU released Worse than Second Class: Solitary Confinement of Women in the United States. Recognizing that women in solitary are often ignored, the...
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Time does not always heal: state violence and psychic damage
Above all, I want to stress that the way in which the state uses time is a method of punishing, even before it seeks to actually penalize you, what I have elsewhere called ‘the weaponisation of time’....
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Mentally ill North Carolina inmate held in solitary confinement dies of thirst
Medical Examiner’s Office said Anthony Michael Kerr died of severe dehydration in March of this year From The Guardian A North Carolina inmate with mental illness who had been held in solitary...
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NC agencies lock down info on inmate’s death from dehydration
From News and Observer Michael Anthony Kerr spent the last five days of his life handcuffed in a prison cell, unresponsive, off his mental health medicine, and lying in his feces and urine. An hour or...
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Prison worker dismissed for inmate’s death has new position
From The Indy At least one North Carolina prison official who lost his job following the death of inmate Michael Anthony Kerr has a new position in the Department of Public Safety. DPS spokeswoman Pam...
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Record 346 inmates die, dozens of guards fired in Florida prisons
Jerry Washington (left); Latandra Ellington (middle); Randall Jordan-Aparo (right). All died in prisons at the hands of guards in the most unjust ways imaginable. From Daily Kos The United States has...
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