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| Feds investigating prisons' treatment of mentally ill |
| By articles.mcall.com - Karen Langley |
| Published: 06/03/2013 |
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HARRISBURG — — The U.S. Department of Justice said Friday it will investigate Pennsylvania prisons statewide after finding a soon-to-close facility in Cambria County violated the rights of mentally ill inmates through prolonged and extreme isolation. Federal investigators found that SCI Cresson routinely locked prisoners with serious mental illness in cells for 22 to 23 hours a day, for months or years at a time, while denying them basic necessities and subjecting them to excessive use of force. The department concluded the prison's misuse of solitary confinement on mentally ill inmates "leads to serious harms, including mental decompensation, clinical depression, psychosis, self-mutilation and suicide," according to a news release. Read More. |
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