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Group Of Prisoners Sue Illinois Department Of Corrections For Alleged Solitary Confinement Misuse
By northernpublicradio.org- Shannon Heffernan
Published: 06/25/2015

A federal lawsuit alleges that the Illinois Department of Corrections use of solitary confinement is “cruel, inhumane and offensive to basic human decency.”

The complaint says about 23 hundred people in Illinois prisons are in solitary on any given day.

And that many of those people are there for very minor infractions.

Brian Nelson spent 23 years in solitary.

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