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When Senator Harris was the attorney general for eight years in the state of California, there were two of the most segregated school districts in the country, in Los Angeles and in San Francisco, i didn't see a single solitary time she brought a case against them to desegregate. – Joe Biden	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Foraging with a sponge is a time-consuming and largely solitary activity so it was long thought incompatible with the needs of male dolphins in Shark Bay - to invest time in forming close alliances with other males. – Simon Allen	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We know that something was very wrong at Lincoln Hills, there are lawsuits, injured youth and records of excessive use of pepper spray and solitary confinement to support that belief. – Lena Taylor	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Our facility does not have' solitary confinement' and inmates housed in administrative segregation for safety and security reasons still have access to social visits, books, recreation, and break time outside their cells. – Dana Lawhorne	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Matt was held in an undisclosed location in solitary confinement for over five months, with no charge, no lawyer and very limited consular access. – Daniela Tejada	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We have asked for clemency, we will wait to see what happens, matt was held in an undisclosed location in solitary confinement for over five months, with no charge, no lawyer and very limited consular access. – Daniela Tejada	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I just wanted to live in a country that respected me as a human; one that offered me some dignity and freedom. I could not accept that I had to live under a dictatorship, for that, we females – even the old ladies – were tortured the same way as the men. We were hung by our feet, electric shocks, our faces beaten into walls and our skin set on fire. My teeth were all broken. I spent more than a month in solitary confinement. I just kept praying for my body to stay alive. – Noura Al-Jizawi	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The use of isolation and solitary confinement is often proffered as a stop-gap intervention, but juvenile crime is neither new nor rare. – John Rozel	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The use of solitary confinement can and should be eliminated through adequate staffing, appropriate training and access to comprehensive assessment and treatment services for mental health and substance use disorders, president Obama’s decision to end the use of solitary confinement for juveniles in the federal system sends a timely and important message. – David Fassler	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Their solitary confinement is probably a lot nicer than what I have in my jails, joe Arpaio should never a live a better life in prison than on the outside. – Joe Arpaio	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I continue to receive frequent and alarming reports about the use of prolonged solitary and incommunicado confinement, torture and ill-treatment, lack of access to lawyers and the use of confessions solicited under torture as evidence in trials - practices that clearly violate Iran's own laws. – Ahmed Shaheed	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Fundamental problems also exist with regard to the due process and fair trial rights of the accused, i continue to receive frequent and alarming reports about the use of prolonged solitary and incommunicado confinement, torture and ill-treatment, lack of access to lawyers and the use of confessions solicited under torture as evidence in trials - practices that clearly violate Iran's own laws. – Ahmed Shaheed	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I hope that President Obama's pledge to reform the criminal justice system regarding the practice of prolonged or indefinite solitary confinement is implemented without delay. – Juan Mendez	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Ilkhani, 21 -- were arrested in their hometown of Tehran on November 10, 2015by the Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, according to the music blog Loudwire. Citing a letter from a friend of the band posted on the Canadian music site Metal Nation Radio, it says the two were charged with blasphemy, advertising against the system, forming and operating an underground record label that promotes the satanic metal/rock style of music, writing religious, atheistic, political and anarchistic lyrics, and interviewing with radio stations based in other nations. The letter said the pair had been held in Iran’s notorious Evin prison for nearly two months in solitary confinement, were only released on Feb. 5 after they paid 1,000,000,000 Rial( about $ 30,000), and now await trial. Trev McKendry, who posted the anonymous letter on Metal Nation Radio, posted a video on YouTube telling Confess that the global heavy metal community is behind them. I've taken [ spreading the word ] upon myself because my source, who is close to the band, reached out to me and specifically said that they asked me to help. – Trev McKendry	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I ask everyone [ who asks about solitary confinement ] to give up their cellphones, their TVs, everything, for a weekend, and then lock themselves in the bathroom, most of the people who try it come out after a few hours. They're like,' No.'. – Brian Nelson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I would rather have you beat me with sticks -- I would rather have you beat me than put me in solitary. – Brian Nelson	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Many state department of corrections are looking at the immense damage long-term solitary causes in the prisoners, and the expense of maintaining supermax units, and they are turning away from solitary as a management strategy. – Terry Kupers	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Taheri's multiple convictions on a variety of vague charges, his alleged detention in solitary confinement and now his sentencing to death bring into stark focus serious issues with the administration of justice and the terribly worrying use of the death penalty in Iran, for an individual to be sentenced to death for peaceful exercise of freedom of expression, religion or belief is an absolute outrage -- and a clear violation of international human rights law. – High Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad Al-Hussein	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Eleven years of solitary confinement and isolation in ten different prisons has been an experience too profound to sum up in a few words here and now, in time, I look forward to sharing reflections on my experience to help inform others. – Babar Ahmad	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's a bargaining chip for him now, within the department, he's going to be locked into a cell, 23 out of 24 hours a day, in solitary confinement. ... He's going to try to use that chip with New York state so he isn't locked into 23 out of 24 (hours) for an extended period of time. – Jeff Dumas	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Ask anybody walking in a ReWalk— it’s been a life-changer for every single solitary one of us. – Theresa Hannigan	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It helps you mentally, you know, gets stuff squared away, keeps you active, ask anybody walking in a ReWalk— it’s been a life-changer for every single solitary one of us. – Theresa Hannigan	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
ADX itself has ... become almost entirely a 'lock-down' facility in which prisoners are locked in solitary cells for all but a few hours a week. – Amnesty International	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Solitary confinement is a kind of torture that no one does well in. The lack of meaningful sensory stimulus and contact drives people mad. – Leslie Walker	Found on CNN 9 years ago

When Senator Harris was the attorney general for eight years in the state of California, there were two of the most segregated school districts in the country, in Los Angeles and in San Francisco, i didn't see a single solitary time she brought a case against them to desegregate.

– Joe Biden

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Foraging with a sponge is a time-consuming and largely solitary activity so it was long thought incompatible with the needs of male dolphins in Shark Bay - to invest time in forming close alliances with other males.

– Simon Allen

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We know that something was very wrong at Lincoln Hills, there are lawsuits, injured youth and records of excessive use of pepper spray and solitary confinement to support that belief.

– Lena Taylor

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Our facility does not have' solitary confinement' and inmates housed in administrative segregation for safety and security reasons still have access to social visits, books, recreation, and break time outside their cells.

– Dana Lawhorne

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Matt was held in an undisclosed location in solitary confinement for over five months, with no charge, no lawyer and very limited consular access.

– Daniela Tejada

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We have asked for clemency, we will wait to see what happens, matt was held in an undisclosed location in solitary confinement for over five months, with no charge, no lawyer and very limited consular access.

– Daniela Tejada

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I just wanted to live in a country that respected me as a human; one that offered me some dignity and freedom. I could not accept that I had to live under a dictatorship, for that, we females – even the old ladies – were tortured the same way as the men. We were hung by our feet, electric shocks, our faces beaten into walls and our skin set on fire. My teeth were all broken. I spent more than a month in solitary confinement. I just kept praying for my body to stay alive.

– Noura Al-Jizawi

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The use of isolation and solitary confinement is often proffered as a stop-gap intervention, but juvenile crime is neither new nor rare.

– John Rozel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The use of solitary confinement can and should be eliminated through adequate staffing, appropriate training and access to comprehensive assessment and treatment services for mental health and substance use disorders, president Obama’s decision to end the use of solitary confinement for juveniles in the federal system sends a timely and important message.

– David Fassler

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Their solitary confinement is probably a lot nicer than what I have in my jails, joe Arpaio should never a live a better life in prison than on the outside.

– Joe Arpaio

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I continue to receive frequent and alarming reports about the use of prolonged solitary and incommunicado confinement, torture and ill-treatment, lack of access to lawyers and the use of confessions solicited under torture as evidence in trials - practices that clearly violate Iran's own laws.

– Ahmed Shaheed

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Fundamental problems also exist with regard to the due process and fair trial rights of the accused, i continue to receive frequent and alarming reports about the use of prolonged solitary and incommunicado confinement, torture and ill-treatment, lack of access to lawyers and the use of confessions solicited under torture as evidence in trials - practices that clearly violate Iran's own laws.

– Ahmed Shaheed

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I hope that President Obama's pledge to reform the criminal justice system regarding the practice of prolonged or indefinite solitary confinement is implemented without delay.

– Juan Mendez

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Ilkhani, 21 -- were arrested in their hometown of Tehran on November 10, 2015by the Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, according to the music blog Loudwire. Citing a letter from a friend of the band posted on the Canadian music site Metal Nation Radio, it says the two were charged with blasphemy, advertising against the system, forming and operating an underground record label that promotes the satanic metal/rock style of music, writing religious, atheistic, political and anarchistic lyrics, and interviewing with radio stations based in other nations. The letter said the pair had been held in Iran’s notorious Evin prison for nearly two months in solitary confinement, were only released on Feb. 5 after they paid 1,000,000,000 Rial( about $ 30,000), and now await trial. Trev McKendry, who posted the anonymous letter on Metal Nation Radio, posted a video on YouTube telling Confess that the global heavy metal community is behind them. I've taken [ spreading the word ] upon myself because my source, who is close to the band, reached out to me and specifically said that they asked me to help.

– Trev McKendry

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I ask everyone [ who asks about solitary confinement ] to give up their cellphones, their TVs, everything, for a weekend, and then lock themselves in the bathroom, most of the people who try it come out after a few hours. They're like,' No.'.

– Brian Nelson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I would rather have you beat me with sticks -- I would rather have you beat me than put me in solitary.

– Brian Nelson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Many state department of corrections are looking at the immense damage long-term solitary causes in the prisoners, and the expense of maintaining supermax units, and they are turning away from solitary as a management strategy.

– Terry Kupers

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Taheri's multiple convictions on a variety of vague charges, his alleged detention in solitary confinement and now his sentencing to death bring into stark focus serious issues with the administration of justice and the terribly worrying use of the death penalty in Iran, for an individual to be sentenced to death for peaceful exercise of freedom of expression, religion or belief is an absolute outrage -- and a clear violation of international human rights law.

– High Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad Al-Hussein

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Eleven years of solitary confinement and isolation in ten different prisons has been an experience too profound to sum up in a few words here and now, in time, I look forward to sharing reflections on my experience to help inform others.

– Babar Ahmad

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's a bargaining chip for him now, within the department, he's going to be locked into a cell, 23 out of 24 hours a day, in solitary confinement. ... He's going to try to use that chip with New York state so he isn't locked into 23 out of 24 (hours) for an extended period of time.

– Jeff Dumas

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Ask anybody walking in a ReWalk— it’s been a life-changer for every single solitary one of us.

– Theresa Hannigan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It helps you mentally, you know, gets stuff squared away, keeps you active, ask anybody walking in a ReWalk— it’s been a life-changer for every single solitary one of us.

– Theresa Hannigan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

ADX itself has ... become almost entirely a 'lock-down' facility in which prisoners are locked in solitary cells for all but a few hours a week.

– Amnesty International

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Solitary confinement is a kind of torture that no one does well in. The lack of meaningful sensory stimulus and contact drives people mad.

– Leslie Walker

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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