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Craig Haney: Solitary Confinement is a “Tried-and-True” Torture Device
Psychology and legal studies professor Craig Haney gave an extensive interview to the PBS investigative documentary program Frontline for its two-part special report "Locked up in America."
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Recent jail deaths raise questions about detox protocols
Newsworks, a blog by WHYY public radio in Philadelphia, quoted psychology professor Craig Haney in an article that looked at the recent deaths of two inmates in Bucks County, Penn. jails.
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80,000 Americans Suffer From a Cruel and Unusual Practice Most Countries Abolished
Psychology professor Craig Haney is featured in an article on solitary confinement published by the online site PolicyMic, aimed at millennials. The author later discussed her findings on MSNBC.
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How four inmates launched a statewide hunger strike from solitary
Host Terry Gross interviewed psychology professor Craig Haney about solitary confinement on the NPR program "Fresh Air."
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The Plot from Solitary
An article in New York Magazine on the summer 2013 hunger strike in California prisons featured comments by psychology professor Craig Haney about the psychological effects of prolonged solitary confinement.
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Psychology’s Haney discusses solitary confinement on NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’
An interview with UC Santa Cruz psychology professor Craig Haney is scheduled on the public radio program “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross.
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Is Solitary Confinement A Form Of Torture?
Inside Science, an independent nonprofit news outlet supported by the American Institute of Physics, covered a panel on solitary confinement at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Chicago that included comments by psychology professor Craig Haney. The news service's reports are syndicated to mainstream news organizations, such as NBCNews.com, Fox…
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Scientists call solitary confinement 'damaging and unnecessary'
The BBC quoted psychology professor Craig Haney in a report on solitary confinement from a session at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Chicago. Agence France-Presse also covered the session; its article appeared in Japan Times, Australia's Perth Now, and on News Daily, a website produced by Science Daily.
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Haney testifies at Sacramento hearing on perils of solitary confinement
In testimony before a joint hearing on public safety, UC Santa Cruz professor Craig Haney described California’s prison system as an outlier in the nation and world in the way it uses isolation of inmates.
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From prison isolation to a sense of doom
The Los Angeles Times quoted psychology professor Craig Haney in an article about a former inmate at Pelican Bay State Prison who now attends UC Berkeley.
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Haney joins commission to study high rates of incarceration
UC Santa Cruz professor of psychology Craig Haney has been named to a National Academy of Science panel of leading scholars and experts on corrections to study the causes and consequences of high rates of incarceration in the United States.
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New poll by UCSC professor reveals declining support for the death penalty
In California, support for the death penalty has eroded significantly since 1989, according to a new public-opinion poll by psychology professor Craig Haney.