Some inmates in California have spent up to 42 years isolated in a solitary confinement cell, new reports have revealed.
“The Californian legislative assembly is looking into massive violations of prisoners’ rights in the state jails,” a Russian human rights ombudsman has tweeted.
“Californian prisoners are often locked up in solitary cells for misbehavior, for example after refusing to snitch on their cell mates. Prison records say some of them spent 30 to 42 years shut away alone!”
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Konstantin
Dolgov of the Russian human rights authority cited official reports as
saying some 4,000 US inmates are being held in solitary confinement
cells. He stressed the UN human rights watchdog believed this figure was
understated and actual cases amounted to about 12,000.
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