Louisiana on Lockdown
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<p>The report, <a href="http://www.solitarywatch.org/louisianaonlockdown"><strong><em>LOUISIANA ON LOCKDOWN</em></strong></a><strong><em>: </em></strong><em>A Report on the Use of Solitary Confinement in Louisiana State Prisons, With Testimony From the People Who Live It, </em>is published by <strong>Solitary Watch, the ACLU of Louisiana, and the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University New Orleans. </strong>More than two years in the making, it is based primarily on a survey completed by 709 people in solitary in all nine of Louisiana’s prisons, the largest ever survey of people living in solitary</p>
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The report, LOUISIANA ON LOCKDOWN: A Report on the Use of Solitary Confinement in Louisiana State Prisons, With Testimony From the People Who Live It, is published by Solitary Watch, the ACLU of Louisiana, and the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University New Orleans.More than two years in the making, it is based primarily on a survey completed by 709 people in solitary in all nine of Louisiana’s prisons, the largest ever survey of people l
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