Cruel and Unusual Confinement on Virginia's Death Row

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

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Paula A. Bernhard¹  Andrea Dinsmore¹ 

[1] Law and Psychiatry Program Department of Psychiatry University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester

关键词: solitary confinement;    death row;    psychological harm;   

DOI  :  10.29158/JAAPL.200046L2-20

学科分类：儿科学

来源: American Academy of Psychiatry The Law

【 摘 要 】

solitary confinementdeath rowpsychological harmVirginia's Death Row Solitary Confinement Conditions Created a Substantial Risk of Serious Psychological and Emotional HarmIn Porter v. Clarke, 923 F.3d 348 (4th Cir. 2019), Virginia death row inmates claimed that the conditions of their confinement on death row constituted cruel and unusual punishment. The district court granted summary judgment to the plaintiffs. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed, ruling that the conditions on death row created substantial risk of serious psychological and emotional harm and the state defendants were deliberately indifferent to that risk.

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