The Legislature has passed and presented to the governor Assembly Bill 314, which would restrict the use of isolated confinement (commonly referred to as “solitary confinement”) in New Jersey prisons and jails. We urge Gov. Murphy to sign the bill without delay.
There is a developing (and some might say developed) consensus among medical, psychological and legal experts that prolonged isolated confinement amounts to a form of torture. Whether or not it is judicially found to violate the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Legislature wisely found that restrictions on its use were “consistent with the New Jersey Constitution, the laws and public policies of this State, the mission of the correctional system, evolving medical knowledge, and human rights standards of decency.”
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