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| Court OKs automatic solitary for Virginia death row inmates |
| By wavy.com- Larry O'Dell |
| Published: 03/11/2015 |
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia can continue to automatically house death-row inmates in solitary confinement, even though a judge who ruled otherwise might have been correct in calling those conditions “dehumanizing,” a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The 2-1 decision by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema’s 2013 ruling that around-the-clock isolation of condemned inmates is so onerous that prison officials must assess its necessity on a case-by-case basis. Failure to do so, she said, violates the inmates’ due-process rights. But the appeals court agreed with state attorneys who argued that prison officials are better equipped than judges to assess security risks and adopt appropriate safeguards. Read More. |
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