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...overturn a single law in a single state, but the court's distaste for the idea of solitary was clear. "The justices saw it as a form of what some people now call no-touch torture," says Alfred W. McCoy, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and author of the book A Question of Torture. "It sends prisoners in one of two directions: catatonia or rage...
...this is providing legal traction for constitutional lawyers. The most obvious point of attack is the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. One suit involving prisoners in a Wisconsin supermax has led to rulings requiring that mentally ill inmates be kept out of such facilities. The state is challenging the decisions, and arguments will be heard in February, but at least six other states have fought similar suits, and all of them have failed. "So far, the prisoners are batting a thousand on the issue of mentally ill inmates," says David Fathi, a senior staff counsel with...
...Just how sterile do you have to make that cell?" asks retired prison expert Chase Riveland, who spent his career as an official in the Colorado, Wisconsin and Washington prison systems...
...front of their homes, even moving entire houses to higher ground. Erie, the shallowest lake, has grown especially dangerous as waves several feet high smash against homes. "We haven't had water levels like this since we started keeping records in 1860," says Philip Keillor, of the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute. "And we've done a lot of building on the lake-front since then...
Proposals for relief include channeling more water out of Lake Michigan into the Chicago River and reversing two Canadian rivers that spill into Lake Superior. But experts are pessimistic. "Lowering the lake levels by any significant amount is going to take eight to twelve years," says Wisconsin Sea Grant's Jim Lubner. "Even under the most aggressive plans proposed, we're talking about lowering the levels only a foot...