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| Why States Are Turning Away From Solitary Confinement |
| By courant.com |
| Published: 09/22/2015 |
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How bad is solitary confinement? "It's an awful thing, solitary," said one former prisoner. "It crushes your spirit and weakens your resistance more effectively than any other form of mistreatment." The former prisoner was U.S. Sen. John McCain, writing of his time as a prisoner of war in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" prison in Vietnam. But what he says applies to domestic prisons as well; not for nothing is it sometimes called "the hole." Solitary confinement is increasingly seen as inhumane and degrading, a form of psychological torture, and has been condemned by human rights organizations. Thus it is good to see Connecticut moving away from this atavistic practice. A study released by the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School and the Association of State Correctional Administrators found that the number of men held in administrative segregation has dropped from 158 in 2011 to 54 this month, a tiny percentage of the 16,152 male inmate population. No women are being held in solitary, down from four in 2013. Read More. |
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