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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

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CA Prisons' Use Of Solitary Confinement Hurts Families

Comments (21) | amnesty international, California, California Correctional Institution, california department of corrections and rehabilitation, CDCR, Daletha Hayden, gang associate, governor jerry brown, hunger strike, Ian Whitson, Juan E. Mendez, pelican bay, prison, Security Housing Unit, short corridor, shu, solitary confinement, Tehachapi, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture

Inmate Ian Whitson is serving an indefinite period in solitary confinement (courtesy Daletha Hayden)

Lauren Madow
Deputy Editor

Inmates conditions in prolonged isolation far exceed the UN's definition of torture.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

California Hunger Strike Centers On Jail Within A Jail

Comments (4) | California, California, department of corrections, gans, human rights, hunger strike, pelican bay, prison, Security Housing Unit

Prison official deny that SHU is solitary confinement. (Creative Commons)

Aaron Liu
Associate News Editor

Department of Corrections confused about inmate demands.

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