With Expert’s Opinions OK’d, Judge Says Connecticut Violated Prisoner’s Rights

Mealey's (August 29, 2019, 11:40 AM EDT) -- NEW HAVEN, Conn. — After determining that opinions by an expert in psychiatry on the harmfulness of solitary confinement were reliable, a Connecticut federal judge on Aug. 27 held that the state has violated the constitutional rights of a man who has been locked up mostly alone for 23 years for killing a police officer (Richard Reynolds v. Leo Arnone, et al., No. 3:13-cv-1465, D. Conn., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 145314)....