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Solitary confinement

'Unconstitutionally cruel treatment': Michigan prisoner seeks release from solitary confinement after 35 years

Portrait of Paul Egan Paul Egan
Detroit Free Press

LANSING, Mich. – A Michigan prisoner who has been held in solitary confinement for an astounding 35 years is asking a federal judge to order state officials to release him to the general population.

James Lamont "Money Mont" Miller, 56, alleges he has been singled out for unconstitutionally cruel treatment because of his conviction for murdering a corrections officer, in prison, back in 1987.