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Yale Law School. The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program (New Haven CT)

  • Administrative Segregation, Degrees of Isolation, and Incarceration: A National Overview of State and Federal Correctional Policies

    “This report provides an overview of state and federal policies related to long-term isolation of inmates, a practice common in the United States a

  • Isolation and Reintegration: Punishment Circa 2014|Revised

    "This collection of materials, which was provided as a starting point for the discussion, describes current patterns of incarceration and explores

  • Time-In-Cell: The ASCA-Liman 2014 National Survey of Administrative Segregation in Prison

    "By facilitating cross-jurisdictional comparisons of the rules and practices that surround administrative segregation, this Report both reflects an

  • Aiming to Reduce Time-In-Cell: Reports from Correctional Systems on the Numbers of Prisoners in Restricted Housing and on the Potential of Policy Changes to Bring About Reforms

    This report "provides the only current, comprehensive data on the use of restricted housing, in which individuals are held in their cells for 22 ho