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Is a Life in Solitary “Cruel and Unusual?”

In Pennsylvania, the heart of solitary confinement reform, an intellectually disabled inmate says he’s been held in wretched isolation for 36 years.

Case in Point • 09.22.2016

A Death Penalty Case, or Just Bullying?

High Court’s conservatives bridle at ‘guerilla’ tactics of ‘abolitionist’ movement.

News • 04.29.2015

Reflections on Roper

On the 10th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision about juveniles and the death penalty, what has really changed?

Commentary • 03.02.2015

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