They said that they faced an inhumane regime of solitary confinement in a special "supermax" prison.
Three judges denied Mitnick bail and ordered him held in solitary confinement, where he stayed for eight months.
For now, any hopes of salvaging his NFL career are secondary to his impending confinement.
What they cannot bring is any idea of how long Ms. Miller's confinement will last.
Jones and her lawyers pleaded for leniency - no prison, but probation, perhaps home confinement.
International human rights campaigners have raised concerns over prisoners' mental health in solitary confinement.
With relatively little outrage, the United States has become the world capital for solitary confinement.
Animals kept in close confinement, reared at close quarters, will inevitably infect one another very quickly.
Clearly, it's an easier path: no debates over the location or conditions of confinement.
Robert Felton drifted in and out of acute psychosis for much of his solitary confinement.
Stuart Grassian, a Boston psychiatrist, has interviewed more than two hundred prisoners in solitary confinement.
And new solitary-confinement units were established within nearly all of our ordinary maximum-security prisons.
With the sunrise comes new colour, partly relieving the stress associated with our confinement.
But there are also melancholy details that reveal the lonely confinement of Woods's stardom.
Private Manning is being held in solitary confinement at a maximum security US military jail.
When she was not picking tea leaves on a farm, she was kept in solitary confinement.
Mr Vanunu spent 18 years in jail including more than 11 in solitary confinement.
Now 83, he still shudders when he speaks of his ordeals: humiliation, solitary confinement and torture.
The sheik's confinement was on bin Laden's list of grievances meant to justify that atrocity.
Neither Barack Obama nor John McCain, however, addressed the question of whether prolonged solitary confinement is torture.
At the same time, other states had just a tiny fraction of their inmates in solitary confinement.
This involves up to eight years' confinement in a special facility perhaps a prison farm, says Mr Pretelt.
For now, Zimmerman is being held on no-bail status in administrative confinement at Seminole County's John E.
She said the "informal segregation or cellular confinement" operated without stringent safeguards and was of "particular concern".
Our first supermax our first institution specifically designed for mass solitary confinement was not established until 1983, in Marion, Illinois.
Their confinement was rigorous: the Dutch were isolated on the tiny, fan-shaped island of Dejima in Nagasaki harbour.
Fumiko had locked herself up before, though she always emerged from her self-confinement after a night or two.
She launched her hunger strike to protest her confinement at Evin, which houses many Iranian dissidents and political prisoners.
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The authorities resorted to a harshly punitive approach to control, including, in the mid-seventies, extensive use of solitary confinement.
Then he delves into our own experimentations with denying humans companionship: solitary confinement.
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