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Protective custody (PC) is a type of imprisonment (or care) to protect a person from harm, either from outside sources or other prisoners. [1] Many prison administrators believe the level of violence, or the underlying threat of violence within prisons, is a chief factor causing the need for PC units.
Solitary confinement (sometimes euphemistically called protective custody, punitive segregation (PSEG) or room restriction) generally comes in one of two forms: "disciplinary segregation," in which inmates are temporarily placed in solitary confinement as punishment for rule-breaking; and "administrative segregation," in which prisoners deemed ...
Solitary confinement is used on incarcerated individuals when they are considered a danger to themselves or others. It is also used on individuals who are at high risk of being harmed by others, for example because they are transgender, have served as a witness to a crime, or have been convicted of crimes such as child molestation or abuse.
The U.S. Supreme Court's three liberal justices on Monday sharply objected to the court's refusal to hear an appeal by a former Illinois inmate who was kept in solitary confinement in a state ...
As the use of solitary confinement in immigration detention centers increases under the Biden administration, some Democratic lawmakers want a phasing out of the practice.
Solitary confinement is often the measure implemented to prevent sexual assaults. [12] Transgender women, specifically, are sometimes placed in male prisons and then separated from the general prison population and put in “protective custody,” which functions in the same ways as solitary confinement, [2]
The parents of a teenager who killed four students at Michigan's Oxford High School lost an appeal Tuesday and will face trial on involuntary manslaughter charges, a rare case of prosecutors ...
This mistreatment includes solitary confinement (which may be described as "protective custody"), physical and sexual violence, verbal abuse, and denial of medical care and other services. [ 80 ] [ 84 ] According to the National Inmate Survey, in 2011–12, 40 percent of transgender inmates reported sexual victimization compared to 4 percent of ...