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| Kentucky jails, prisons taking steps to curb solitary confinement |
| By wdrb.com- Jason Riley |
| Published: 07/20/2015 |
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LOUISVILLE, Ky., (WDRB) -- When inmate Holly Snyder allegedly called her boyfriend from Metro Corrections recently, asking him to drop a domestic violence charge against her, a judge took away Snyder’s phone privileges for violating a no contact order. As a result, Snyder spent the next three weeks in solitary confinement, isolated in a barren, windowless 8-foot-by-12-foot cell for all but one hour a day. The move was indefinite, until an attorney and a judge finally intervened on her behalf. “To leave her in solitary while this case is pending … is extremely unnecessary, especially in light of the charges,” attorney Sarah Clay said at a June hearing before Jefferson District Court Judge Erica Williams. “I think it is overly harsh.” Williams agreed, saying she only recently learned that the jail places inmates in segregation when their phone privileges are taken away. The judge called the issue a “problem” that needed to be addressed. Read More. |
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