Case 1:18-cv JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 1 of 40. Plaintiffs

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 1 of 40 Plaintiffs Defendants See

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 2 of 40 The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners available at Wilkinson v. Austin Tillery v. Owens

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 3 of 40 Davis v. Ayala Davis Ruiz v. Texas

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 4 of 40 See Is Death Row Obsolete?A Decade of Mainstreaming Death-Sentenced Inmates in Missouri, Delaware Quietly Disbands Death Row, Rethinking Death Row: Variations in the Housing of Individuals Sentenced to Death,

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Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 8 of 40 Williams v. Sec y Pa. Dep t of Corr. Pennsylvania Death Row Facilities supra

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 9 of 40 Conditions of Solitary Confinement on Pennsylvania s Death Row

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 11 of 40 in toto

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 13 of 40 Plaintiffs Solitary Confinement Anthony Reid Ricardo Natividad Mark Newton Spotz

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 14 of 40 Ronald Gibson Jermont Cox

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 15 of 40 Prisoners Housed in Prolonged Solitary Confinement Suffer Severe Harm In re Medley American Notes for General Circulation

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 16 of 40 Amici Curiae Wilkinson v. Austin On the Penitentiary System in the United States: And Its Application in France Seee.g. Solitary Confinement: Common Misconceptions and Emerging Safe Alternatives Psychiatric Effects of Solitary Confinement Aiming to Reduce Time-In-Cell: Reports from Correctional Systems on the Numbers of Prisoners in Restricted Housing and on the Potential of Policy Changes to Bring About Reforms SeeExcessive Deprivation of Liberty Men in Crisis: Human Breakdowns in Prison Regulating Prisons of the FutureA Psychological Analysis of Supermax and Solitary Confinement Ill-Equipped: U.S. Prisons and Offenders with Mental Illness

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 17 of 40 Id. The Dangerous Overuse of Solitary Confinement in the United States Mental Health Issues in Long-Term Solitary and Supermax Confinement SeeThe Effects of Solitary Confinement on Prison InmatesA Brief History and Review of the Literature Psychiatric Effects of Solitary Confinement supra

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 18 of 40 Id Id. supra Psychiatric Effects of Solitary Confinement 44 Years in Solitary Confinement is Even Worse Than You Can Imagine Inmates Who Attempted Suicide in Prison: A Qualitative Study Psychiatric Services in Correctional Facilities

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 19 of 40 Solitary Confinement and Risk of Self-Harm Among Jail Inmates The Colorado Study vs. the Reality of Supermax Confinement Ind. Prot. & Advocacy Servs. Comm n v. Comm r

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 20 of 40 supra Perceived Social Isolation and Cognition supra Predictors of Cognitive Decline and Mortality of Aged People over a 10-Year Period Loneliness and Risk of Alzheimer Disease

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 21 of 40 See, e.g.use It or Lose It: Activity May Be the Best Treatment for Aging Deconditioning in the Hospitalized Elderly Solitary Confinement Fundamentally Alters the Brain, Scientists Say The Science of Solitary Confinement Treatment of Prisoners see also

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 22 of 40 Requiring All Death-Sentenced Prisoners to be Housed in Solitary Confinement Does Not Promote Safety and Security and is Inconsistent with Mainstream Correctional Practice Confronting Confinement: A Report of The Commission on Safety & Abuse in America s Prisons Confronting Confinement, A Report On Safety and Abuse In America s Prisons

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 23 of 40 supra Id Administrative Segregation in U.S. Prisons: Executive Summary Conviction Offense and Prison Violence: A Comparative Study of Murderers and Other Offenders

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 24 of 40 Is Death Row Obsolete? A Decade of Mainstreaming Death-Sentenced Inmates in Missouri Id Amici CuriaePrieto v. Clarke Findings in Prison Classification and Risk Assessment Aiming to Reduce Time-In- Cell: Reports from Correctional Systems on the Numbers of Prisoners in Restricted Housing and on the Potential of Policy Changes to Bring About Reforms

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 25 of 40 Standards for Criminal Justice, Treatment of Prisoners, Id Delaware Quietly Disbands Death Row See Rethinking Death Row: Variations in the Housing of Individuals Sentenced to Death, ls Death Row Obsolete? A Decade of Mainstreaming Death-Sentenced Inmates in Missouri, see also id.

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 26 of 40 Solitary Confinement of Death-Sentenced Prisoners Violates Internationally Recognized Human Rights Law Treatment of Prisonerssupra Aranguren (Detention Center of Catia) v. Venezuela Velásquez-Rodríguez v. Honduras A.B. v. Russia

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 27 of 40 See, e.g. Concluding Observations of the Human Rights Committee: United States of America Concluding Observations of the Human Rights Committee: United States of America

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 28 of 40 Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment Seesupra Id.

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 29 of 40 supra Id

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 30 of 40 The DOC Acknowledges the Harms Caused by Prolonged Solitary Confinement Except for Death-Sentenced Prisoners. Id See, e.g.

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 33 of 40 Deprivation of Basic Human Needs Serious Psychological and Physical Injury

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 34 of 40 Deprivation of Human Dignity in Violation of Contemporary Standards of Human Decency and Disproportionate Punishment Defendants Deliberate Indifference to the Deprivations Suffered by Plaintiffs

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 36 of 40 Conditions on Death Row Duration of Confinement

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 37 of 40 Lack of Any Process

Case 1:18-cv-00176-JEJ Document 1 Filed 01/25/18 Page 40 of 40 *Not admitted in DC; practice limited to federal courts Attorneys for Plaintiffs