The ACLU’s unique and powerful network of state affiliate offices has been working on the frontlines to reduce reliance on solitary confinement, making states safer while saving taxpayer dollars.
Arizona
- Complaint, Parsons v. Ryan, No. 2:12-cv-00601-NVW—MEA (D. Ariz. March 22, 2012) (formerly Gamez v. Ryan)
California
- SB 61 January 8, 2013 (This bill would have provided that a minor or ward who is detained in, or sentenced to, any juvenile facility, jail, or other secure state or local facility shall not be subject to solitary confinement, as defined, unless the minor or ward poses an immediate and substantial risk of harm to others or to the security of the facility, and all other less-restrictive options have been exhausted.)
Colorado
- “Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Story of Sam Mandez”
- Report on CO-DOC’s Implementation of Administrative Segregation Plan
- Colorado Department of Corrections Administrative Segregation and Classification Review Technical Assistance # 11P1022
- SB 176: Concerning Appropriate Use of Restrictive Confinement: Rights of Prisoners
- Out of Sight, Out of Mind—By the Numbers: The Solitary Confinement of Mentally Ill Prisoners (Infographic)
- Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Colorado’s Continued Warehousing of Mentally Ill Prisoners in Solitary Confinement (July 2013)
Florida
Illinois
- Edwin Yohnka, “Saving Dollars… With Good Policy” Huffington Post, March 28, 2012 (About the closing of the Tamms supermax facility)
- Letter from the ACLU of Illinois to Governor Pat Quinn Regarding the Closure of the Tamms Correctional Facility
- David Fathi’s statement before the Illinois Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability For the Hearing on the Proposed Closure of Tamms Correctional Center
Maine
- Change is Possible (March 2013), Zachary Heiden, American Civil Liberties Union of Maine
- Maine CLU Resources and Information Regarding Solitary Confinement
- Final Working Group Report
- “Reform Comes to the Supermax,” Lance Tapley, The Portland Phoenix, May 25, 2011
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Massachusetts
- S1133 (January 22, 2013)
Mississippi
- Complaint, Dockery v. Epps, No. 3:13-cv-00326-TSL-JMR (S.D. Miss. May 30, 2013)
- Mississippi DOC Deputy Commissioner on Reducing the Use of Segregation in Prisons (2011)
- Complaint, Presley v. Epps, No. 4:05CV148-JAD (N.D. Miss. June 22, 2005)
- Supplemental Consent Decree, Presley v. Epps, No. 4:05CV148-JAD (N.D. Miss. November 3, 2007)
- Expert Report of James Austin, Presley v. Epps, No. 4:05CV148-JAD (N.D. Miss. November 15, 2007) (classification)
- “Mississippi’s Corrections Reform: How America’s Reddest State – And Most Notorious Prison – Became a Model of Corrections Reform,” John Buntin, Governing Magazine, August 2010
- “Beyond Supermax Administrative Segregation,” Terry Kupers, et. al, Criminal Justice and Behavior, July 21, 2009
- Vera Institute of Justice, Segregation Reduction Project
Montana
- HB536 (February 20, 2013)
Nevada
- SB 107 (February 11, 2013)
New Hampshire
- HB480 (January 17, 2013)
New Mexico
- Inside the Box, ACLU of New Mexico & The New Mexico Center on Law & Poverty (October 2013)
- House Memorial 62
New York
- Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur Concerning New York State Prisoners Held in Solitary Confinement and Other Forms of Extreme Isolation
- New York City Bar Association Letter to Commissioner Brian Fischer, New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
- Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement in New York’s Prisons and Jails
- Summary compilation of NY SHU Exclusion Law
- SB 5906 (Inmates shall not be in segregated confinement for reason of discipline, detention, administrative segregation, protective custody, keeplock, or any other reason for admission, unless they have engaged in highly dangerous, violent or serious escape-related behavior while incarcerated in that facility; ninety day review)
Texas
- TX HB 1266/SB 1003 — Solitary Study Bill that Would Create an Administrative Segregation Task Force
- TX HB 686/SB 1802 — Bill Would Require a Report on the Number of People in Solitary and the Status of Mental Health Referrals
- TX SB 1357 — Bill Would Regulate Administrative Segregation in County Jails
- Senate Criminal Justice Interim Charge — Administrative Segregation Study (January 13, 2012)
- HB 3764 (adult solitary confinement)
- HB 3303 (juvenile solitary confinement)
Virginia
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New York City Bar Association Letter to Commissioner Brian Fischer, New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
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