Bradshaw v. Sorrento Restaurants

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “the literature is virtually unanimous in its conclusion: prolonged supermax solitary confinement can and does lead to significant psychological harm” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “After even relatively brief periods of solitary confinement, inmates have exhibited systems such as .,, hallucinations, increased anxiety, lack of impulse control, severe and chronic depression, ... sleep problem s, and depressed brain functioning.”
• “the deleterious effects of isolated housing on inmates—especially to those assigned to long-term solitary confinement—are well-known and amply documented,” including the fact that prolonged solitary confinement “can and does lead to significant psychological harm”
• describing solitary confinement in New York state prisons

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).