Learning to Love the ADA in the Fight Against Solitary Confinement
Author: Amy Fettig.
Source: Volume 21, Number 04, November/December 2019 , pp.55-56(2)
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Abstract:
Amy Fettig is Deputy Director of the ACLU National Prison Project and Director of the Stop Solitary Campaign. In this article, she explains how bringing suit under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 794 (the Rehab Act) and under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101 et seq. (the ADA) provide an equal access framework to address both program access and conditions of confinement, and why such a framework allows litigators and corrections officials to address head-on one of the key roadblocks in the road to abolishing solitary confinement–the need for more and better alternatives to solitary.Keywords: Thorpe v. Virginia Department of Corrections; Harvard v. Inch; Hope v. Pelzer
Affiliations:
1: ACLU National Prison Project.