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Washington Post Editorial: Solitary disgrace. Prisons should abolish long-term solitary confinement.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Solitary disgrace Prisons should abolish long-term solitary confinement. Washington Post Editorial Saturday, November 28, 2009 MANY ARE KEPT in their cells for at least 23 hours a day with minimal contact with other people, including guards. Food is delivered through a slit in the door, and most are prohibited from attending classes or counseling sessions with other inmates. They are not, by and large, the "worst of the worst" -- mass murderers or psychopaths in the mold of Hannibal Lecter. They are, instead, men and women serving time for all manner of offenses, some of them relatively minor. But they have been deemed disciplinary problems -- or potential disciplinary problems -- by prison staffers. And so they find themselves locked up in what is commonly known as solitary confinement, sometimes for months, sometimes for years and sometimes with devastating consequences...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 28, 2009 (boomark / email).