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Solitary Confinement to End for Youngest at Rikers Island

Although experts have spoken for years about the devastating effects of solitary confinement on the mental health of adolescent prisoners, such seclusion has long been the primary form of punishment at the Rikers Island jail complex, where inmates as young as 16 can spend days, weeks and sometimes months locked in a cell for over 23 hours a day. [read the full story here]

New York Times, Sunday, September 28, 2014
Tags: Prison Conditions & Corruption, New York
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