#solitary-confinement — Public Fediverse posts

#usa #israel #iran : #warofaggression / #detainee / #humanrights / #opposition / #protest / #repression / #torture

„In an exclusive extract of writing smuggled from prison in Iran, the Nobel peace prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has described the “torture” of #solitaryconfinement, and her systematic medical neglect by the prison system.“

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/10/narges-mohammadi-nobel-laureate-smuggled-memoir-details-beatings-neglect-iranian-prisons

Again,I feel

e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t

towards the US regime:

"growing body of evidence shows that solitary confinement causes extreme suffering and mental and physical breakdowns even in individuals with no history of psychiatric disabilities,with symptoms that include anxiety,depression,psychosis,self-harm,and suicide. For people with underlying mental illness,who are more likely than others to land in solitary,the effects are even more dire and deadly."—"prison guards were withholding basic necessities,like toilet paper,from them"

"Many of these people really need mental health assistance.But instead of getting proper help, they’re being held in cages and treated like they’re not people"—"lights are bright and never turn off,which can make it difficult for prisoners to sleep at night"—"piles of moldy food,swarms of bugs,and layers of dust on the floors,beds,and toilets"—"fluids“seep into the foam where it can’t be decontaminated"—"would only dispose of a mattress when it was torn, not because it posed a health hazard"

"sleeping on a contaminated mattress creates serious health risks.The mattress begins to mold,creating ammonia and causing long-term respiratory complications,and even death when inhaled for long periods of time"—"blood all over the bed,floor,and hallway"—"would defecate in his hand,rub it all over the wall,smear it under the bed,and in between the doorjambs.Occasionally,he would urinate on the floor"—"loud and would jar other prisoners from their sleep in the middle of the night"—"forced him to work on his day off"—"more than 122,000 people were in solitary confinement"—"should have more time out of their cells,regular showers"—"Prisoners with mental health issues should be getting treatment instead of being placed in solitary for months on end"

https://solitarywatch.org/2026/04/07/they-had-to-clean-solitary-cells-what-they-saw-forced-them-to-quit/

#contempt #solitaryconfinement #inhumane #torture #humanrights #humanrightsviolation #humanrightsviolations #prison #usa #us #authoritarianism

#Adelanto #ICE facility's use of #SolitaryConfinement is among 10 highest in #US, data shows

https://laist.com/news/politics/adelanto-solitary-confinement-data

Publicly available data also shows the number of people being held at the facility near Victorville has tripled since last fiscal year.

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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116234377443044480

Good thread about copaganda, racism, and the horrible prison system in the USA.

(my poor attempt at a summary - there are so many topics mentioned!)

#USPol #Racism #Copaganda #Jail #Prison #SolitaryConfinement

This Tennessee Prison Is Leaving LGBTQ People Unhoused Behind Bars

https://murica.website/2026/02/this-tennessee-prison-is-leaving-lgbtq-people-unhoused-behind-bars/

That's because the conditions at ADX are some of the most restrictive in the federal system. Unlike in other prisons, where #SolitaryConfinement is often reserved as a punishment for bad behavior & there are opportunities for prisoners to spend time in groups, in ADX, the prisoners are always confined alone & are required to stay inside cells no larger than a parking spot 22 to 24 hours a day.

#Trump #law #DeathPenalty #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint

10 of the prisoners were transferred to one of the most restrictive maximum-security prisons in the US, an infamous facility in Colorado nicknamed "the Alcatraz of the Rockies" where every prisoner is kept in #SolitaryConfinement. 2 were taken to states where prosecutors have pledged to seek the #DeathPenalty against them again, in state court.

#law #Trump #TheCrueltyIsThePoint

"The justice system is a "stain on Australia's reputation"."

"A delegation of United Nations inspectors have raised the alarm about Australia's treatment of children, First Nations people, people with disability and migrants in detention."

"The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention visited detention facilities in New South Wales, Western Australia and the ACT, but was denied access to all Northern Territory institutions in an international first... The Northern Territory barred all access to inspectors in a worldwide first."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-13/united-nations-warn-australia-prison-detention-human-rights/106136950

Loïc J. D. Wacquant, oeuvre >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo%C3%AFc_Wacquant
#UnitedNations #Australia #incarceration #HumanRights #laws #FirstNationsPeople #NT #children #SolitaryConfinement #inequality #deregulation #StateStrategy #PunitiveGovernance

Venezuelans That US Sent to El Salvador Mega-Prison Faced Torture, Sexual Abuse

https://murica.website/2025/11/venezuelans-that-us-sent-to-el-salvador-mega-prison-faced-torture-sexual-abuse/

In Prison My Diagnosis Gave Me Access to Meds — Others Were Denied Care Entirely

https://murica.website/2025/11/in-prison-my-diagnosis-gave-me-access-to-meds-others-were-denied-care-entirely/

Writer Who Survived ADX Supermax Prison Describes How It “Entombs” People

https://murica.website/2025/10/writer-who-survived-adx-supermax-prison-describes-how-it-entombs-people/

"Looking back, it is difficult for David to recall exactly how he spent most of his time in that cell. How does one describe a period characterized by absence?" —Rebecca Cadenhead for MLK 50 https://mlk50.com/2025/10/01/no-school-no-fresh-air-and-isolated?src=longreads #solitaryconfinement #isolation #juvenilejustice

People in NY Prison’s Mental Health Unit Kept in Solitary Confinement, Suit Says

https://murica.website/2025/09/people-in-ny-prisons-mental-health-unit-kept-in-solitary-confinement-suit-says/

7th Circuit: No Established Right To Be Housed In A Cell Free Of Scattered Feces And Contaminated Water

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/10/7th-circuit-no-established-right-to-be-housed-in-a-cell-free-of-scattered-feces-and-contaminated-water/

ICE Is Incarcerating Immigrants at Angola, Louisiana’s Max Security Prison

https://murica.website/2025/09/ice-is-incarcerating-immigrants-at-angola-louisianas-max-security-prison/

‘Devastating’: troubled federal correctional center failed to prevent death of man in medical crisis https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/12/cibola-county-correctional-center-james-ramirez-death #Solitaryconfinement #USimmigration #USpolicing #USprisons #NewMexico #USnews

“#Solitaryconfinement marks you. It #tortures your soul. You’re living day-by-day in #fear and #uncertainty”: This is what it’s like to be #jailed by a #repressiveregime for playing in a #metalband

https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/interviews/confess-iranian-metal-band-interview

Last Week Tonight Juvenile "IN"-Justice #cashforkids https://youtu.be/Pya-kt5M7uY #hrw #torture #solitaryconfinement

Sam Bankman-Fried Thrown into Solitary over Tucker Carlson Interview: Report — https://gizmodo.com/sam-bankman-fried-thrown-into-solitary-over-tucker-carlson-interview-report-2000573371
#HackerNews #SamBankmanFried #TuckerCarlson #SolitaryConfinement #NewsReport #ViralStory

Virtual reality in solitary confinement isn’t a Black Mirror episode. It’s happening in California https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/08/vr-prison-california #Solitaryconfinement #Virtualreality #California #Technology #USprisons #WestCoast #USnews

Tehching Hsieh, One Year Performance, September, 30 1978

❛❛ #Hsieh (went by Sam Hsieh at the time) sealed himself in his #studio in a #cell in #SolitaryConfinement for a year. His #food, #clothing, and #refuse needs were facilitated by Cheng Wei Kuong. ❜❜

🔗 http://new.artasiamerica.org/works/8350/523
🔗 https://TehchingHsieh.net/oneyearperformance1978-1979
🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/arts/design/19perf.html

#Community #TimeTravel #Research #isolation #confinement #experimental #performance #art #conceptualism #TehchingHsieh #Kronodon

Join us for a day dedicated to ending solitary confinement, an inhumane and ineffective practice. A catered lunch will be provided from 12–2pm (first come first served). This event is free and open to the public. Held at the Michigan League on campus at the University of Michigan.

Featuring Keynote Speaker Prof. Margo Schlanger, Michigan Professor of Law. Additional panelists from Open […]

https://votingaccessforall.org/2025/01/michigan-against-solitary-confinement-statewide-summit/

In 2022, organizers in California introduced a bill to have solitary confinement limited, and banned completely for pregnant people and other vulnerable groups. The bill was called the Mandela Act. For @bolts, Piper French writes about how the bill evolved beyond recognition — so much so that it now codifies in California law that it is permissible to use solitary confinement against pregnant people — and how that happened.

https://boltsmag.org/california-solitary-confinement-laws-2024/

#California #Prison #Incarceration #SolitaryConfinement #Pregnancy #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Although Vietnam ratified the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in 2015, such ill-treatment continues in #Vietnamese #prisons. In September and October 2024, four #PrisonersOfConscience went on hunger strike for several weeks to protest their conditions of detention in Prison No. 6 in Nghe An. These four activists included Le Manh Hung, Dang Dinh Bach, Bui Van Thuan and Trinh Ba Tu. They denounced the use of “tiger cages” as a means of #SolitaryConfinement, which were cubes made of iron bars with about 1 meter of space to move around as well as the inability to exit and interact with other prisoners.

The Vietnamese authorities have also increasingly violated human rights beyond their borders through #TransnationalRepression. Blogger Duong Van Thai, who was #kidnapped from #Bangkok in April 2023, was sentenced to 12 years in prison and 3 years probation in a closed-door trial on October 30, 2024 with the charge of “propaganda against the state” (Article 117 of the Penal Code).

Another ongoing case of transnational repression is against Y Quynh Bdap, a #Christian and member of the #Ede ethnic group in Vietnam. Bdap fled to #Thailand in 2018 to escape religious and political #persecution by Vietnamese officials. He was granted #RefugeeStatus by the UN refugee agency. But, under pressure from the Vietnamese government, the Thai police arrested Bdap in June 2024 with the threat of #extradition back to Vietnam.

Besides the case of Duong Van Thai kidnapped in Bangkok in 2023, there were two other cases of transnational kidnapping, which occurred in #Berlin in 2017 (Trinh Xuan Thanh) and in Bangkok in 2019 (Truong Duy Nhat). The three kidnappings happened under the purview of Mr. Tô Lâm, who was Minister of Public Security from 2016 to 2024. With these cases of transnational repression, the Vietnamese authorities are testing how far it can extend its power to #SilenceActivists.

https://viettan.org/en/prisoners-2024/amp/

https://viettan.org/en/prisoners-2024/amp/

Vietnam Prisoners of Conscience 2024 Report
Download the report in pdf 👇
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uO262wuKfi6WWjR81JgwpYhfdoGMDB5Z/view?usp=sharing

#AsianMastodon #Vietnam #TootSEA #PoliticalPrisoners #Censorship #SouthEastAsia #WorldNews #HumanRights #GlobalSouth #WarOnActivists #AsiaNews