Idaho and Tennessee have come under scrutiny for their use of solitary confinement in maximum security facilities and youth detention centers. Patients in Idaho are locked up for months at a time, while kids in a Knoxville detention center claim that 'voluntary' seclusion is not always voluntary. ProPublica's investigation revealed that the Tennessee facility is putting kids in solitary confinement but classifying it as 'voluntary.' The severe suffering imposed by solitary confinement has sparked calls for its ban, with civil rights advocates and politicians vowing to end the practice.
Solitary confinement imposes severe suffering and is a tortuous practice that must be banned. The practice inflicts havoc on individuals and their families, and I vow to continue my push to end solitary confinement in New York City, once and for all. https://t.co/LiiGyPBVwc
"THIS TOO SHALL PASS"- I wrote these words on my shoes to help get me through a hellish heroin withdrawl during a month in solitary confinement in a year long jail sentence. It passed. First day out of solitary, I found out that my dad was dying. A couple of months later he… https://t.co/LzFP2Cm8SH
An investigation from ProPublica shows that one Tennessee youth detention facility is putting kids in solitary confinement but classifying the seclusion as "voluntary." https://t.co/Wz0d7C49DD
Tennessee law permits kids in detention centers to request “voluntary seclusion,” where they can spend time alone in lockup to cool off. But kids at this Knoxville detention center say what the facility calls “voluntary” isn’t always so. w/ @WPLN https://t.co/k8gE7zr8Tc
Under a program defined by Idaho law, patients are locked up in solitary confinement in a maximum security facility, sometimes for months at a time. One civil rights advocate called the practice “shocking beyond belief.” https://t.co/qh0ihd0g0D
Under a program defined by Idaho law, patients are locked up in solitary confinement in a maximum security facility, sometimes for months at a time. One civil rights advocate called the practice “shocking beyond belief.” https://t.co/ahbVV18waU