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Camp Hill PA: Torture in Solitary Confinement Uit

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

STATE CORRECTIONS Do special units go too far? They're designed for toughest inmates, but opponents say they're misused Friday, December 12, 2008 BY PETE SHELLEM Of The Patriot-News They're the worst of the worst in the state prison system. Fifty-five men out of 48,900 inmates whose behavior led them to the hole beyond the hole have been placed in one of the two Special Management Units in the Department of Corrections. The department says it's an incentive program for inmates who have racked up so much disciplinary time that they could spend more than a decade in the solitary confinement of the Restricted Housing Unit. It's also a solitary confinement unit, but the program could get them back into the general population in two years if they follow the rules...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 12, 2008 (boomark / email).