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2 unusual facts about Solitary confinement


Hari Singh Gour

Solitary confinement had been abolished in England and Gour claimed that it would be in keeping with the civilized culture of India to wipe out this kind of punishment—an inhumane mark ironically left by the British colonialists themselves in the Penal Code.

Incommunicado

Solitary confinement, one of the ways in which a person can be held incommunicado.


Horst Sindermann

In March 1935, he again was arrested for attempted high treason, tortured and put in solitary confinement for six years at Waldheim jail.

Killer on the Road

He is sentenced to four consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole, and placed into solitary confinement in Sing Sing Prison.

Martin Sostre

In earlier legal activity, Sostre secured religious rights for Black Muslim prisoners and also eliminated (in the words of Federal Judge Constance Motley) some of the more "outrageously inhuman aspects of solitary confinement in some of the state prisons.".

Penetrate the Satanic Citizen

Penetrate the Satanic Citizen is a 1992 Leæther Strip album, which, together with Fit for Flogging, bundles most of Leæther Strip's releases prior to Solitary Confinement.

Rhyme Asylum

Their second album Solitary Confinement was released in April 2010 featuring Crooked I, Ill Bill and frequent collaborator Reain.

Thomas E. Gaddis

Birdman of Alcatraz was the story of Robert Stroud, the grandson of a Federal judge, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in solitary confinement after stabbing a guard to death in Leavenworth Federal prison in Kansas.


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Brian Lindstrom

Perhaps more importantly, it is the only film ever to be shown to inmates in solitary confinement at Oregon State Penitentiary.

Cage bed

"We can either use cage beds, or increase people's medication, strap them down, or put them in solitary confinement," says Jan Slezak, director of Social Care Home in Raby, eastern Bohemia.

Christopher Gadsden

As a result, he spent the next 42 weeks in solitary confinement in a prison room at the old Spanish fortress of Castillo de San Marcos.

Clive Lyle

Clive Lyle is a fictional character in the three last novels by Peter Niesewand, the South African journalist who spent 73 days in solitary confinement for his coverage of the last years of Ian Smith's government in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

Death Warrant

Meanwhile, more inmates are mysteriously murdered with one being set on fire in his own cell for giving Burke information about the murders and also Konefke is killed, and stone-faced prison guard DeGraff (Art LaFleur) puts Burke in solitary confinement, where he's interrogated and beaten.

Eugene K. Bird

After the publication of the book, Bird campaigned to have Hess released from what had effectively become permanent solitary confinement after Albert Speer and Baldur von Schirach were released in 1966.

Georges Cipriani

After several years of solitary confinement and partial confinement, Georges Cipriani was committed to the psychiatric hospital of Villejuif during the summer of 1993.

Heinrich Scherhorn

Kept in solitary confinement in the infamous Lubyanka prison and constantly interrogated, he was given the choice of either cooperating with the NKVD or face charges for alleged war crimes due to the fact, that his regiment had performed Anti partisan duties.

Jalila al-Salman

According to al-Salman, in the first week, she was taken to the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) in Adliya, where she was kept in solitary confinement for 10 days, forced to stand for prolonged periods, investigated in harsh conditions and forced to sign papers she was not allowed to read.

Kifah Jayyousi

Jayyousi was released from the Federal Detention Center at Miami, Florida where he spent a year in solitary confinement.

Lagle Parek

Along withh Tatyana Velikanova, Irina Ratushinskaya and others, Parek took part in the hunger strikes and other protests, for which she was subjected to imprisonment in solitary confinement.

Philip E. Smith

Most of his captivity was spent in solitary confinement, however he did meet John T. Downey and Richard Fecteau both of whom were CIA agents captured in 1952.

Richard Wurmbrand

Wurmbrand, who passed through the penal facilities of Craiova, Gherla, the Danube – Black Sea Canal, Văcăreşti, Malmaison, Cluj, and ultimately Jilava, spent three years in solitary confinement.

Sami Abdul Aziz Salim Allaithy

Al Laithi's lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, has asked for Al Laithi to get medical care for his injuries, for the release of his prison medical records, and for him to be released from solitary confinement.

Solitary Watch

Overseen by journalist James Ridgeway and writer/editor Jean Casella, the website features original reporting, an archive of resources and information, and the "Voices from Solitary" Project which collects firsthand stories from inmates who have served time in solitary confinement.

Thomas Vavasour

In Nov., 1574, after he had been confined to his own house in the city of York for nearly nine months, he was sent into solitary confinement in Hull Castle.