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From Solitary Watch: Bill to Limit Solitary Confinement Introduced in Colorado Legislature

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Bill to Limit Solitary Confinement Introduced in Colorado Legislature By James Ridgeway and Jean Casella- Solitary Watch | February 22, 2011 Solitary Watch- URL: http://wp.me/pKbGK-KL A bill just introduced in the Colorado state legislature would place curbs on the use of solitary confinement in state prisons, especially on prisoners with mental illness. As we've written before, Colorado makes liberal use of solitary confinement. The practice has spurred public debate over the opening of an second costly supermax prison in the midst of a budget crisis, and over a controversial study of prisoners in the all-solitary Colorado State Penitentiary. The new bill emphasizes the economic costs of solitary confinement as well as its human costs. The following is from a press release issued this morning by the ACLU: A bill introduced last night in the Colorado state legislature will end the all-too-common practice of warehousing prisoners with serious mental illness in solitary confinement...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 23, 2011 (boomark / email).