He grabbed an anthology of plays by black playwrights on his way into solitary confinement one day.
Mr. Seminerio's lawyers had initially argued for home confinement, but on Thursday simply asked for leniency, citing his years of service and health problems, including artery disease and hypertension.
He believes that in 15 years, there will be anywhere from 150,000 to 200,000 juveniles in confinement on any given day.
Right now, in the United States, at least 65,000 people are in solitary confinement on any given day.
According to figures compiled by the nonpartisan Office of Legislative Research, the state was housing 18,869 inmates just before the slayings in Cheshire, which touched off the crackdown, and had 19,194 in confinement on Sept. 21, the day the governor suspended parole for violent offenders.
At a hearing on solitary confinement before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday afternoon, Samuels, who has been at BOP since 1988, struggled to answer a basic question put to him by Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn).. "How big is an average cell in solitary?" Franken asked.
This referred to President Obama's comments on Friday that he had asked the Pentagon about Manning's confinement and the Pentagon assured him that it was appropriate.
At the hearing on Friday, the judge ruled that Mr. Breivik would remain in solitary confinement for four more weeks, despite his protests.
Herman Wallace, one of the so-called "Angola 3″ prisoners known for their decades of incarceration and solitary confinement in Louisiana, has died just a few days after being released from jail, his legal team said on Friday.
A prisoner who has been on a nine-year hunger strike to protest against his confinement at the US base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, can now return to his native Saudi Arabia, a government review board said on Friday.
