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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Our first supermax our first institution specifically designed for mass solitary confinement was not established until 1983, in Marion, Illinois.
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.
FORBES: Too much privacy: Solitary confinement in U.S. prisons
Many say they are kept in solitary confinement and are refused family visits.
Ramzi Yousef has been locked away in solitary confinement at the federal "Supermax" prison in Florence, Colorado, since 1998.
Lauterbach said that during his captivity, he spent four days in solitary confinement.
He has said he was tortured during his second arrest, when he was released after 99 days in solitary confinement.
This piece discusses the practice of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and how it destroys the minds of isolated prisoners.
FORBES: Too much privacy: Solitary confinement in U.S. prisons
He has remained there since, spending five months in solitary confinement with no access to books, television or writing material.
As for Mr Hakamada, now 72, he is losing his mind as he languishes in solitary confinement on death row.
Mr Breivik is in police custody, in solitary confinement without access to news or the internet for the next eight weeks.
The main worry has to do with Mr Chen's detention before and during the trial, including a month in solitary confinement.
His lawyers have often expressed concern about his health in the past, usually demanding that he be moved out of solitary confinement.
In the prisoners Grassian saw, about a third had these vulnerabilities, and these were the prisoners whom solitary confinement had made psychotic.
After his release from solitary confinement, Leeson was diagnosed with colon cancer.
Sandusky, 69, is currently serving 30 to 60 years in solitary confinement.
Nobody has explained why he needed to be kept in solitary confinement.
She has been thrown in solitary confinement again and again and again.
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