The report concluded that the “harsh and inhumane” conditions on Texas’ death row amount to a form of torture. Until 1999, condemned inmates in Texas received treatment similar to other inmates.

Texas Texas death row inmates sue state over mandatory solitary confinement The TX prisoners are confined to 8-by-12 cells for 22 hours a day ...

The lawsuit says death row inmates are locked up alone 22 hours to 24 hours a day, and their small cells are kept illuminated at all hours. A Corrections Department official says the lawsuit is ...

On death row, men are shut alone in small cells between 22 and 24 hours a day, often violating the state’s own policies on how often they are let out, the lawsuit says.

Death row inmates at Angola are confined for 23 hours a day in small, windowless cells. “The harsh repercussions of prolonged isolation are well-known among mental health experts, physicians and human ...

Death row prisoner Alfredo Prieto challenged Virginia’s system of automatic solitary confinement in 2012. In November 2013, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that the system is ...

Three death row inmates at Angola have sued Louisiana prison officials over what they call an “extreme” practice of placing prisoners in solitary confinement for long periods, saying the policy ...

Thursday's Top Stories Dallas-Fort Worth, Jan. 26 06:06. HOUSTON (AP) — A group of death row inmates filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Texas prison system over its policy of mandatory ...

The lawsuit says inmates are in solitary confinement in a small cell nearly 24 hours a day while they wait for their execution -- which, in Pennsylvania, never seems to come.

As of 2021, 12 states also practiced automatic solitary confinement for death row prisoners. According to the lawsuit , these Texas death row inmates spend at least 22 hours each day in cramped, 8 ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. >> Five death row inmates sued Pennsylvania prison officials on Thursday, challenging a policy that keeps the convicts isolated most of the time and calling the practice degrading ...