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| Wisconsin Looks to Reduce the Number of Inmates in Solitary Confinement |
| By wuwm.com- LaToya Dennis |
| Published: 08/26/2015 |
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The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism outlined new procedures the state Dept. of Corrections may follow in deciding whether to hold an inmate in solitary confinement including the person's mental status and the severity of the infraction committed. The center's Dee Hall says inmates Wisconsin assigns to solitary confinement are held in small concrete cells with almost no human interaction or natural light. Hall says prison staff feeds the inmates through a slot in a solid door and sometimes leave them without bedding for hours or even days. She says that sort of treatment can be detrimental. “I interviewed an inmate named Talib Akbar and he seems like a very mentally strong individual, but when I talked about his time at the secure program facility in Boscobel, formally known as Supermax, he acknowledged that he really mentally deteriorated during nearly a year in solitary confinement. He began to make friends with a fly and act very strangely and become obsessed by tiny details in his cell," Hall says. Read More. |
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