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ACLU Calls for Ban on Solitary Confinement in Juvenile Facilities
By /jjie.org - Gary Gately
Published: 12/04/2013

The American Civil Liberties Union has called for a ban on solitary confinement of children being held in juvenile facilities.

In a report titled “Alone and Afraid: Children Held in Solitary Confinement and Isolation in Juvenile Detention and Correctional Facilities,” the ACLU strongly condemned solitary confinement, in which children are held in a small cell 22 to 24 hours a day with little social contact.

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