solitary confinement

June 18, 2012 - As a Senate panel prepares to hold a hearing on prolonged solitary confinement in U.S. prisons on June 19, a law professor at Southern University in Baton Rouge discusses the troubling case of Louisiana's Angola 3 and its human rights implications.

October 12, 2009 - By James Ridgeway, The Unsilent Generation

August 3, 2009 - Detainees at a privately-run detention center in Louisiana waged hunger strikes to protest inhumane conditions at the jail.