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When Freedom Still Feels Like Prison: Life After Solitary Confinement
Solitary confinement can cause severe psychological impacts and the U.N. considers it torture. Yet prolonged isolation ...
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Ky. prison guard’s plea sheds light on what inmates called ‘staff assault day’
However, as the SHU became full, prison officials implemented an “unofficial policy” to reduce occupancy. According to court ...
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Prison rap sheet reveals more violent behavior by cop killer Kelvin Vickers
After a video of a Rochester cop killer attacking a correction’s officer surfaced online, News10NBC continued to investigate ...
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After Exposing a Lack of Addiction Treatment in Prison, I Was Sent to One of the Country’s Deadliest Facilities
In the SHU, the windows are frosted over with white ... institutions based on their needs and the needs of a particular prison. “The Federal Bureau of Prisons is committed to ensuring the ...
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III. Supermax Prisons and the Psychological Effects of Isolation
In 1995 a federal court examining the Security Housing Unit (SHU) of the Pelican Bay State Prison—a California supermax —found that “many, if not most, inmates in the SHU experience some ...