What is the current state of the law for placing a defendant in solitary confinement?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Almighty Supreme Born Allah v. Milling, 876 F.3d 48 (2nd Cir. 2017):
For this conduct, defendants placed Allah in solitary confinement for more than a year, spread across two terms of incarceration. During part of that time, he was a pretrial detainee, which means that any restraints imposed upon him must be evaluated in light of Bell v. Wolfish , 441 U.S. 520, 99 S.Ct. 1861, 60 L.Ed.2d 447 (1979), the leading case explaining what conditions may lawfully be imposed upon pretrial detainees.
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