The True Cost of Extreme Isolation in New York's Prisons
Date of Alert:
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Boxed In
A report by the New York Civil Liberties Union
The True Cost of Extreme Isolation in New York's Prisons
"I feel like the walls are closing in on me. I get suicidal…"
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Letters & Photos
Read letters and poems from prisoners.
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By the Numbers
View data on who is in New York’s extreme isolation cell
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What occurs behind prison walls is murky. What occurs inside a “prison within a prison,” as many describe extreme isolation, is murkier still. The NYCLU conducted an intensive year-long investigation to shed light on the use and consequences of extreme isolation in New York prisons. Based on a year of study and analysis, we found that New York’s use of extreme isolation is arbitrary, inhumane and unsafe.
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