Media Coverage of the February 25, 2014 Senate Hearing on Solitary Confinement:

"Religious Leaders and Solitary Confinement" Interviews by Nick Liao, video by Lauren Talley, edited by Anton Vidale, PBS Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, February 28, 2014. As the US Senate prepared for hearings on the use of solitary confinement in American prisons, a coalition of faith-based leaders gathered near Capitol Hill to denounce the practice, which some of them called a form of torture. PBS spoke with Laura Markle Downton of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture,  Rabbi Rachel Gartner of T’ruah: A Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, and Galen Carey of the National Association of Evangelicals. “God made us to be in contact with other human beings, and when we take that human contact away, it exacerbates whatever problems that may have been there before. So rather than rehabilitating people, it actually makes them worse,” said Carey.

National Council of Churches press release

Presbyterian Church (USA) press release

“Buscan frenar en EEUU abuso de confinamiento en solitario” by Maria Pena, La Opinion, February 25, 2014. 

"Activistas en EEUU se unen contra confinamiento en solitario" HispanTV, February 26, 2014.

"US Senate Holds Hearing on Reforming Usage of Solitary Confinement in Prison System" by Michael Gryboski, Christian Post, February 28, 2014.

"Dangers of solitary confinement highlighted at DC event" by Adelaide Mena, Catholic News Agency, March 4, 2014.

"Way Down in the Hole: Senate Hearing Challenges Solitary Confinement for Some, But Not All" by Jean Casella, Solitary Watch, March 5, 2014.

"Time to Bring an End to Torture in Our Jails" by Rev. Ron Stief, Huffington Post, March 4, 2014.