New Solitary Confinement Plan For Younger Inmates At Rikers [NPR.org]

Samantha Sangenito 1/15/1512:00 PM

New York City officials unanimously agreed Tuesday to eliminate solitary confinement for inmates ages 21 and younger. The decision is groundbreaking: Jails across the U.S. impose solitary confinement on misbehaving inmates.

In recent years, the Department of Correction has been plagued by accusations of inmate abuse at Rikers Island, the second-largest jail in the U.S. In 2012, the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) published Boxed In: The True Cost of Extreme Isolation in New York's Prisons, a yearlong investigation.

[For more of this story, written by Jasmine Garsd, go to http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetw...ing-officers-at-risk]

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