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| Washington prison to offer nature videos in solitary |
| By heraldandnews.com |
| Published: 09/08/2015 |
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SHELTON, Wash. (AP) — For dozens of maximum custody prisoners at Washington Corrections Center, 23 hours each day is spent alone in a small cell, with an hour to walk or run, also alone, in a recreation room with high concrete walls and a metal-grated roof that offers a view of the sky. In the coming weeks, these prisoners — which include the most dangerous and unruly of the overall prison population — will have the option of using the hour outside of their cells to watch sunsets, mountains and underwater seascapes through a program that brings the outdoors inside, via video, projected on a blank recreation room wall. The hope of corrections officials is that by offering a regular visual dose of nature, inmates will be calmer, guards will deal with fewer outbursts or violent interactions, and overall safety in the unit will increase. Read More. |
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