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| Out of the hole: Mental health program in Monroe prison could mean less “supermax” prisoners |
| By monroemonitor.com - Polly Keary |
| Published: 10/16/2013 |
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Twelve years in the hole. It sounds like a blues song or a movie, and a far-fetched one at that; 12 years is an unimaginable time to spend locked up alone in a tiny concrete room. I sn’t it? Not for Derek Correa. A three-strikes prisoner who was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in 1996, he entered prison at 28 and immediately became a chronic problem. He fell in with gangs, wouldn’t obey orders, got in fights. That got him thrown in solitary over and over, for increasing stretches of time. In all he has spent, by his estimation, between 12-15 years in solitary confinement, locked in a cell alone for 23 hours a day. v He’s still there. But last week, chained hand, foot and waist to a desk in a classroom with three other long-term residents of “the hole,” he took a class designed to help him learn basic things about how to interact with other human beings. Read More. |
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