i experienced the horror of solitary confinement. obama is right to reduce it | chandra bozelko /

Published at 2016-01-26 21:16:54

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Minutes after being in solitary confinement at York Correctional institution my emotions would divebomb
Prison is the one site in the world where you cant get kicked out for unsuitable behavior. Instead,you get kicked in. To solitary confinement. apart from that might not be the case anymore after Barack Obama’s historic humanitarian move yesterday of banning solitary confinement for juveniles and for low-level offenders in the federal prison system. In an op-ed in the Washington Post, Obama noted that inhabitants of solitary confinement decompensate mentally because of the conditions, or sometimes so severely that it affects their re-entry into society once they proceed domestic. He is right.
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Source: theguardian.com

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