Nicholas Turner Testimony on Reassessing Solitary Confinement II The Human Rights, Fiscal, and Public Safety Consequences, to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, February 25, 2014
Overview
Written testimony of Nicholas Turner, president and director of the Vera Institute of Justice, on the human rights, fiscal, and public safety consequences of segregation (also known as solitary confinement or restricted housing) in prisons, jails, and detention centers throughout the United States submitted on February 25, 2014 to the United States Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights. Drawing on the experience of Vera's Segregation Reduction Project, Turner recommends a series of concrete steps that jurisdictions can take now to curtail their over-reliance on this exceptionally costly and harsh form of incarceration. Turner concludes his testimony by calling on Congress to support reform by mandating and funding the collection of national data on segregation, a national study on its impact, and the development of national standards on its use.
