Two Years of Uninterrupted Confinement: Supreme Court Rejects Man’s Appeal In Extreme Case of Solitary Confinement
The Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of an Illinois inmate who sued the state after he spent two uninterrupted years and three years total in solitary confinement without any opportunities to go outside or get exercise. A similar legal challenge from Texas was also on the horizon, presenting the nation’s highest court…