Warning issued against abuse of solitary confinement
Mar 15, 2013
WASHINGTON, CMC – The United Nations expert on torture has called on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to investigate the practise of solitary confinement and its harmful effects in the Americas, including the Caribbean. Juan E. Méndez, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on torture, also called for stronger regulation on solitary confinement. “I am concerned about the general lack of official information and statistics on the use of solitary confinement,” Méndez told the Commission at its first-ever briefing on solitary confinement in the Americas.
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