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“This is the most severe and damaging type of solitary confinement that is used in the American penal system. Ted Kaczynski has less restrictive confinement

Brendan Dassey, who was convicted with Avery in a later murder, has been exonerated by a federal appeals court.

Today in Wisconsin, Western District Judge Peterson found that the use of solitary confinement, pepper spray and restraints at two juvenile facilities violate kids’ constitutional rights under the Fourteenth Amendment. We originally filed the lawsuit in January on behalf of boys and girls held in Lincoln Hills School for Boys and Copper Lake School for Girls.

A federal judge on Friday ordered two Wisconsin youth correctional facilities to reform conditions for their detainees, who are subjected to pepper spraying and "likely

A federal appeals court has refused to reinstate the conviction of a Wisconsin man convicted of helping his uncle kill a woman in a murder

Separately, the complex has been under criminal investigation for 2½ years for prisoner abuse and child neglect.

The lawsuit, brought with the assistance of the American Civil

A federal judge branded Wisconsin’s juvenile prison for boys as a “troubled institution” on Thursday, saying it puts too many inmates in isolation and over-relies

A federal judge says that Wisconsin's juvenile prison for boys is a "troubled institution" that overuses segregation, pepper spray and shackles on inmates.

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As you read this, we are in court with ACLU of Wisconsin in Madison’s Western District Court. Back in January, we filed a class action civil rights lawsuit against state officials’ use of solitary confinement, shackling and pepper spray against youth in two facilities – Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake.