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The Cost of Solitary Confinement

Messy cell criminals - It will get you solitary confinement!!!

  Wow, if you get put in jail for "messy yard" crimes like failing to mow your yard, you can be put in solitary confinement for having a "messy cell"
NY state imposed 70,000 isolation sentences for offenses like having an “untidy cell”
Of course the real purpose of this article is to tell people how our government masters use solitary confinement to abuse people in prison. I guess there is nothing more fun then being a powerful government bureaucrat who has the power to abuse people that you consider inferior to yourself.

These jerks remind me a lot of my father.

I used to get punished for things like:

  • Saying hi wrong
  • Acting funny
  • Not keeping my hair tied in a pony tail or under my hat

I wonder do the Homeland Security cops that read my web page punish your children for trivial crimes like those.

Source

The Cost of Solitary Confinement

Published: December 13, 2012

The New York Legislature greatly improved the treatment of mentally ill inmates in 2008, when it required the prison system to place seriously mentally ill inmates who violate rules into a treatment program instead of solitary confinement, where they were more likely to harm themselves or commit suicide. Related

A lawsuit filed last week by The New York Civil Liberties Union, however, suggests that the system is still misusing punitive isolation, not just for some of the mentally ill, but for a broad range of the system’s 55,000 inmates.

Most prison systems use isolation selectively, singling out violent people who present a danger to guards and other inmates. The lawsuit asserts that New York uses isolation as routine punishment for minor, nonviolent offenses — more than any other system in the country.

The plaintiff in the suit, Leroy Peoples, is a 30-year-old with a history of mental illness who was twice sentenced to solitary confinement. In 2005, he was sentenced to six months for “unauthorized possession of nutritional supplements” that were available for sale in the prison commissary. In 2009, he was sentenced to three years in isolation for having unauthorized legal materials.

According to court documents, between 2007 and 2011, the state imposed 70,000 isolation sentences for offenses like having an “untidy cell or person,” or for “littering,” “unfastened long hair” or an “unreported illness.” On any given day, about 4,300 of the system’s inmates are locked down for 23 hours a day in tiny concrete cells, many of them destined to remain there for years. As additional punishment, prison officials can deny food, exercise, bedding or showers.

The suit charges that New York’s system is arbitrary and, therefore, unconstitutional. It also suggests that African-American inmates are more often banished to isolation, and for longer periods of time, than inmates from other racial groups. However the court decides this case, it seems clear that New York’s isolation policy is inhumane and counterproductive, requiring clearer guidelines from the Legislature as to when isolation can and cannot be used.

 
 

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