Please sign on your group and organization as an endorser of the federal End Solitary Confinement Act, S3409/HR4972: bit.ly/EndorseEndSolitaryAct. In line with the President Biden’s campaign pledge to end solitary, it is time for the President and Congress to end solitary now. For more information, please check out: ESCA Key Fact, ESCA Bill Summary, and ESCA FAQs.
Please also see extensive written testimony for a recent U.S. Senate hearing by leading national experts on solitary here, including the Federal Anti-Solitary Taskforce (FAST), Dr. Bandy Lee, Dr. Pablo Stewart, Dr. James Gilligan, Dr. Craig Haney, Dr. Terry Kupers, Unlock the Box Campaign, and Nicole Davis.
This year has seen a series of scathing reports on the use of solitary by the federal government, including a Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General report documenting that nearly half of all deaths by suicide in federal Bureau of Prisons custody (46%) take place in solitary, a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office documenting the widespread and racist infliction of solitary in BOP prisons, new investigative reporting about staff sexually assaulting women in BOP prisons and then locking them in solitary as retaliation for reporting those assaults, and a report documenting the increased use of solitary in federal immigration detention. The President and U.S. Congress must end solitary now.
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