Why Arizona No Longer Houses Death Row Inmates In Solitary Confinement

Published: Tuesday, January 2, 2018 - 3:16pm
Updated: Tuesday, January 2, 2018 - 3:41pm
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The Arizona Department of Corrections has stopped housing death row inmates in solitary confinement.

Instead, they’re now allowed to go outside, meet people face-to-face and eat with other prisoners, rather than in their cells.

Michael Kiefer has written about this. He’s a senior reporter at The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com and covers justice issues.

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