by Adam Quirk | Mar 11, 2017 | Adam Quirk, Criminal Justice, Incarceration, Prison
Today, many human rights organizations in the U.S and around the world are raising concerns about the inordinate use of solitary confinement in prisons, and rightly so. In the U.S alone, more than eight thousand people are being held in some form of solitary...
by Adam Quirk | Jan 29, 2016 | Criminal Justice
Earlier this week, President Barack Obama expressed his views on solitary confinement in an op-ed piece published by The Washington Post. Solitary confinement is the isolation of an inmate, and is often used as a form of punishment against prisoners. The confined are...
