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| Op-Ed: Prison, the new madhouse |
| By Boston Globe |
| Published: 12/10/2007 |
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MASSACHUSETTS - Many of the mentally ill prisoners in Massachusetts live in conditions that evoke an 18th century madhouse. Even people who believe that prisons exist solely for punishment should not abide a system that forces prisoners with diagnosable mental illnesses to spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement, where they grow crazier, more desperate, and more dangerous by the day. A three-part Globe Spotlight series that began yesterday plumbs the decisions and conditions that led to 15 suicides in state prisons since 2005 - triple the average rate in other states. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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