In several jurisdictions to include North Carolina, mentally ill inmates have died while confined in restrictive housing or because of being housed in restrictive housing. If you were a prison administrator faced with maintaining order in a correctional environment, and many of those in your population were seriously mentally ill, how would you propose to ensure accountability for rule violations at the same time managing their mental illness?
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Read: Mandela Rule on Solitary Confinement
Watch: You Tube Video – “Man Forgotten in Solitary Confinement for Years.”
Watch: You Tube Video – “Solitary Confinement: No Way Out of the Monster Factory.”
Watch: You Tube Video – “After 4 Decades in Solitary, Dying Angola 3 Prisoner Herman Wallace Freed, Conviction Overturned.
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Read: Lanes, E., (2011 October). Are the “worst of the worst” self-injurious prisoners more likely to end up in long-term maximum-security administrative segregation?, Int J Offender Therapy, Comparative Criminology, 55(7), 1034-1050.
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