Notable Yale Law Journal Forum essays respond to big report on solitary confinement

As reported in this prior post from this past fall, the Association of State Correctional Administrators with researchers at Yale Law School together produced an important report about solitary confinement titled Time-in-Cell: The Liman-ASCA 2014 National Survey of Administrative Segregation in Prison.  This report provided updated information, as of the fall of 2014, on the numbers and the conditions of prisoners in restrictive housing nationwide.

Now the folks at the Yale Law Journal have put together through its on-line Forum this impressive collection of essays that respond to Time-In-Cell.  Here are the contents with links via the essay titles:

• Only Once I Thought About Suicide by Reginald Dwayne Betts

• Worse than Death by Alex Kozinski

• Staying Alive: Reforming Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons and Jails by Marie Gottschalk

• The Liman Report and Alternatives to Prolonged Solitary Confinement by Jules Lobel

• Time-In-Cell: Isolation and Incarceration by Judith Resnik, Sarah Baumgartel & Johanna Kalb

• Time-In-Cell: A Practitioner’s Perspective by Ashbel T. (“A.T.”) Wall