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Dallas, PA - "Life and Death in Pennsylvania's Solitary Confinement Cells" From Solitary Watch

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Life and Death in Pennsylvania's Solitary Confinement Cells James Ridgeway and Jean Casella | September 7, 2010 Matt Stroud has been doing excellent reporting on solitary confinement in the weekly Philadelphia City Paper. In August he published "A Death in Solitary." (http://citypaper.net/articles/2010/08/05/matthew-bullock-solitary-confinement-suicide) When Matthew Bullock, a 32-year-old convicted killer, fashioned a noose from a bed sheet that he wasn't supposed to have, secured it around his neck, tied it to thin steel bars in the face-high window of his solitary confinement cell, then sat down hard in an effort to break his neck and suffocate himself, it wasn't the first time he'd attempted suicide. In fact, according to a civil lawsuit filed in November 2009 by Bullock's parents against officials at the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) and officials and state-contracted health care providers at the State Correctional Institution at Dallas (SCI Dallas) ? where Bullock's lifeless body was found hanging on Aug...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 08, 2010 (boomark / email).