Tag: solitary confinement
Immigration Detention: The Mental Health Impacts
Solitary confinement is not a substitute for medical isolation and its conditions are not conducive to care or recovery, but rather a tool to manage and silence those struggling with trauma exacerbated by conditions they are trapped in indefinitely.
Release Prisoners from the Psychological Torture of Solitary
From the New York Daily News: "One candidate for New York governor, Cynthia Nixon, wants to abolish solitary confinement in our prisons. To New...
Why We Ended Long-Term Solitary Confinement in Colorado
From The New York Times: According to international standards for the treatment of prisoners, keeping someone in solitary confinement for longer than 15 days is...
The Rise of Solitary
From Dissent Magazine: In her recently published book 23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement, scholar and advocate Keramet Reiter discusses the...
Study Finds Mistreatment and Psychological Distress Among LGBT Prisoners in the...
The rate of incarceration for lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals is roughly three times that of the general population and they experience significantly higher rates of victimization and mistreatment in prison.
Landmark Victory against the âOak Ridge Torturersâ â Do We Cheer...
With reports of the horrid abuse at Oak Ridge surfacing frequently over the years, how could this travesty have continued unabated for so long? What is wrong with the âtherapeuticâ community that what happened here was hailed as a major advance?
This is Solitary
In this piece for The Atlantic, Natalie Chang explores the devastating psychological trauma of solitary confinement.
"That is the legacy and the cost of solitary confinement: The...
I am Insane
I have been here at Western State Hospital for almost five years. While Iâve been told that Iâve met all the criteria for a conditional release, the hospital wonât grant me this because I canât prove that I wonât be dangerous in the future. Can anyone prove this? Even convicts donât have to prove theyâre âsafeâ before they are freed.
They Call This âHelpâ
âWonât they know Iâm lying?â I asked. âWonât they know Iâm an impostor?â âNo,â he said, ânot at all. You can tell them youâre suffering from delusions and theyâll believe it almost without question. It doesnât matter if you donât have any history of psychiatric illness or hospitalization, just make up some nonsense about hearing voices and theyâll swallow the whole thing hook, line and sinker.â