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Solitary confinement, COVID-19 and mental health impacts
Dr Sharon Shalev is an international expert on the use and consequences of solitary confinement. She is Research Associate at the Centre for Criminology at Oxford University, and manages an informational website www.solitaryconfinement.org. Sharon authored the Sourcebook on Solitary Confinement, a practitioner’s guide to the health effects of solitary confinement, a book on the US ‘Supermax’ prisons, and reports on solitary confinement practices in England and Wales and in New Zealand.
Nuno Pontes is an expert on incarceration and related human rights issues with over thirty years’ experience in the field. His knowledge of American solitary/supermax practices drives his work and activism both in the USA, and in Europe where he has been a member of the European Prison Observatory since 2013.
Video directed by Camille Laufer
The use of imprisonment around the world
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Latin America: pre-trial detention and access to justice
A discussion about rights under threat and the consequences for women, people of colour, and marginalised groups, with Isabel Roby, legal and policy officer, Fair Trials (Latin America) and Hugo Leonardo, president of the Brazilian defence lawyers’ network.
