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| Half of parolees who murdered spent time in solitary confinement |
| By canoncitydailyrecord.com - Jennifer Brown & Karen E. Crummy |
| Published: 09/25/2013 |
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Steven Bassett was deemed too violent to eat or exercise or bunk with other prisoners. He bashed a guard in the eye with his cuffed hands. He threw bombs made of feces at prison staff. For nearly eight years, he was in solitary confinement, locked in an 8-by-10-foot concrete box with a slit of sunlight. He had only an hour outside his cell each day to exercise and shower. Bassett spent the final three months of that prison stint in a mental-illness treatment program much like solitary, and then his time behind bars was up. He reached his mandatory release date in August 2010 and walked out on parole; too dangerous to hang out with the general population in the prison cafeteria, he was free to buy groceries and look for work. He didn't last long on the outside. Read More. |
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