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| Prison Head Decries Solitary After 20 Hours of His Own Confinment |
| By boiseweekly.com- George Prentice |
| Published: 03/17/2014 |
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It's not unusual for someone to decry the use of solitary confinement in prisons. It's highly irregular that the criticsim is coming from a prison chief. In fact Rick Raemisch, the man who took over as Colorado's chief of corrections in 2013 after his predecessor was shot to death by a former inmate who had spent years in solitary, went as far as to spend 20 hours of his own in solitary confinement. Raemish was led to the cell in handcuffs and leg shackles so that inmates wouldn't notice that something was up. In February, Raemisch went to Capitol Hill, to tell a U.S. Senate subcommittee that solitary confinement was "overused, misused and abused." Read More. |
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