Dear Friend,
Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman has been in solitary confinement for eight weeks after speaking out on criminal justice reform.
According to a Siegelman attorney, on October 15, Don Siegelman, while being interviewed on a radio talk show about criminal justice reform, was ordered by a prison official to hang up the phone. He was immediately moved to a higher security facility and placed in solitary confinement.
Siegelman has been confined in a Special Housing Unit cell for the last eight weeks and has only been out of his cell for less than 5 hours. He has been not been allowed to use the telephone or have any visitors during that time, including family.
Siegelman, a proponent of criminal justice reform, had written and published a paper in support of the SAFE Justice Act which is pending before Congress. Siegelman’s paper had recently been delivered to each Member of Congress.