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Civil Rights Clinic in the News

• October 8, 2012 – Prof. Laura Rovner: Ruling from European Court ignores solitary confinement realities in U.S.

• September 17, 2012 – CPR interview w/ lecturer Brittany Glidden re: changes to solitary confinement policies

• September 5, 2012 – Editorial: Colorado prisons’ solitary exercise policy cruel, unusual

• August 30, 2012 – Judge Rules Against Colorado’s Supermax That Keeps Prisoners Indoors for Years

• July 9, 2012 – Solitary Watch: Profs. Rovner & Theoharis co-author piece ‘Preferring Order to Justice’

• June 20, 2012 – Prof. Laura Rovner provides testimony re: solitary confinement to U.S. senators

• June 15, 2012 – Written Testimony of Professor Laura Rovner, Before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights Hearing on Reassessing Solitary Confinement: The Human Rights, Fiscal, and Public Safety Consequences

• Columbustelgram.com, May 17, 2012 – Mentally ill inmates sue to get out of solitary

• Additional news coverage for Troy Anderson case:
  • www.necn.com
  • www.thedenverchannel.com
  • www.9news.com

• Westword.com, May 7, 2012 – Troy Anderson lawsuit: Supermax conditions draw criticism from judge

• Law Week Colorado, May 1, 2012 – Mentally Ill Inmate Caught In A Catch-22, Advocate Says

• March 9, 2012 – “The Gray Box”: Upcoming New York Event on Solitary Confinement

• Mother Jones magazine features Civil Rights Clinic solitary confinement case

• DenverPost.com, November 26, 2011 – University of Denver clinic has students act as attorneys for prisoners

• October 6, 2011 – Federal Judge Rules 28 Years in Solitary Confinement Not “Extreme,” Dismisses Silverstein Case

• The Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio, May 1, 2011 – Inmate sues after 28 years in solitary

• DenverPost.com, April 29, 2011—Supermax inmate suing to lessen solitary confinement

• Denver Post – 4/29/2011

• Psyche, Science and Society, April 11, 2011—Lawrence Tribe, Obama Constitutional law teacher, joins critics of Manning’s treatment

• Solitary Watch, April 11, 2011—Solitary confinement comes to Capitol Hill

• Solitary Watch, April 4, 2011 – Congressional Briefing on Solitary Confinement to Take Place This Week

• Solitary Watch, February 28, 2011 – Fortresses of Solitude (Part 1)

• CPR – 6/20/2010

• Law Week – 6/20/2010

• Denver Post – 6/20/2010

• Vail Daily – 5/2010

• Vail Channel 5 News – 5/2010

• Solitary Watch, March 26, 2010 – Federal Lawsuit Challenges 27 Years of Supermax Confinement

• 9News – 4/20/2010

• Solitary Watch, January 22, 2010 – America’s “Most Isolated Man” Sues the Bureau of Prisons

• Denver Post – 1/2009 – Sturm College of Law Professor Laura Rovner and her Civil Rights Clinic are quoted in a Susan Greene column in the Denver Post about Supermax inmate Tommy Silverstein, who has been in solitary confinement for 20+ years, longer than the legendary Birdman of Alcatraz.

• Denver Post – 8/2009

• Rocky Mountain News – 11/2007

• DBA – 10/2007

• NPR – 7/2007

• Denver Post – 6/2007

• DU Today – 6/2007