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In an article for Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Jeffrey Metzner and Jamie Fellner write that solitary confinement may constitute a violation of medical ethics. As the authors note, healthcare professionals are "ethically obligated to refrain from countenancing, condoning, participating in, or facilitating torture or ...
Fellner, Jamie. "Beyond Reason: Executing Persons with Mental Retardation", Section of Individual Rights & Responsibilities, American Bar Association, Summer 2001, accessed July 4, 2009. Godoy, Maria. Q&A Solitary Confinement and Human Rights", National Public Radio, July 27, 2006, accessed July 4, 2009.
A temporary program for “dangerously mentally ill” patients has continued for five decades. Soon, Idaho will be the only state still using prisons to house patients who face no criminal charges.
More than two-thirds of prisoners at Red Onion are held in solitary confinement, or "segregation". They are confined to their cells 23 hours per day in 8’ x 10’ cells with 6” x 24” windows for light. Length of confinement ranges from two weeks to fourteen years. [15] [16] Food and medicine are served through trays in the cell door. [17]
A first-of-its-kind analysis is aiming to become a benchmark for tracking the full scope of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails.
Nearly 10% of all Wisconsin prisoners in solitary confinement today have a serious mental illness. And just over 1,800 prisoners in Wisconsin have been diagnosed with a serious mental illness such ...
"Solitary confinement is unjust and inhumane torture that disproportionately targets our nation's most vulnerable groups." Roughly 122,000 people in federal and state adult prisons and federal and ...
Critics claim that the use of extended confinement in solitary cells severely affects prisoners' mental health, a conclusion supported by numerous studies. [35] [36] [37] As of March 2015, settlement negotiations were underway with the help of a federal magistrate. Some changes have already been made by the Bureau of Prisons. [38]