Michael B Mushlin

Michael B Mushlin

March 26, 2021 | New York Law Journal

Banishment New York Style

For tens of thousands of people a sentence of penal confinement in New York is much more than that; it is banishment, plain and simple.

By Michael B. Mushlin

4 minute read

September 13, 2019 | New York Law Journal

The Role of SCOTUS in Making the Metropolitan Correctional Center Prone to Suicide, Mayhem

Lost in all the attention that has been focused on the Jeffrey Epstein case and the Metropolitan Correctional Center is the critical role the United States Supreme Court played in permitting the MCC to be a site where suicide and other mayhem is more likely to occur.

By Michael B. Mushlin and William E. Hellerstein

4 minute read

July 01, 2019 | New York Law Journal

Studying the Destructive Nature of Solitary Confinement

Witnessing firsthand the awful consequences of subjecting human beings to solitary confinement and looking into the eyes of those inmates struggling to maintain a foothold on reality and sanity is painful.

By Michael B. Mushlin and David N. Cassuto

3 minute read

September 05, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Solitary Confinement: New York's Hidden Problem

By Michael B. Mushlin

8 minute read