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92 Tul. L. Rev. 697 (2017-2018)

handle is hein.journals/tulr92 and id is 737 raw text is: The Solitary Confinement of Girls in the United States: International Law and the Eighth Amendment Colleen Murphy* I. INTRODUCTION.......................................697 II. THE SOLITARY CONFINEMENT OF YOUTH ........... ......699 III. SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, YOUTH, AND GENDER ...... .....702 A. The Unique Experience of Girls in Detention..............702 B. The Need for a Gender-Specific Approach to Solitary Confinement................ .........703 IV. INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE SOLITARY CONFINEMENT OF GIRLS.. ..........................................705 A. International Law in General ........... ......705 B. International Treaties and Resolutions Related to Solitary Confinement of Girls .................708 1. The Convention on the Rights of the Child..............708 2. U.N. General Assembly Resolutions ...... .....710 C. Applying International Law to the Eighth Amendment. .................... ...........712 1. Proportionality Test.................. .....713 2. Two-Prong Test ........................716 V. CONCLUSION ............................................718 I. INTRODUCTION In 1970, Antoinette Lollis, a fourteen-year-old girl, was detained at the Hudson Training School for Girls in New York.' She started a fight with another inmate and was put in solitary confinement where she remained twenty-four hours a day for over two weeks.2 The room was six feet by nine feet.3 In the room was a bench, a blanket, and * C 2018 Colleen Murphy. J.D. candidate 2018, Tulane University Law School; B.A. 2011, University of North Carolina. Thanks to Professor Addis for the feedback and for advising me on this project. I am also so grateful to my family for their endless support and to the members of Tulane Law Review for their work on this Comment. 1. Lollis v. N.Y. State Dep't of Soc. Servs., 322 F. Supp. 473, 475 (S.D.N.Y. 1970). 2. Id. 3. Id. 697

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