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Monday, July 2nd, 2018

Despite Reforms, Children in Jails Are Still Held in Solitary Confinement

Author:     Mike Ludwig
Source:     truthout
Publication Date:     29 June 2018
 Link: Despite Reforms, Children in Jails Are Still Held in Solitary Confinement
Stephan:   Imagine: you have just turned 16 and you are locked up in your closet. You don't know for how long. The light never goes off, you talk to no one, see no one, your meals, such as they are, are shoved through a mail slot cut in the closet door. What do you think the effect of that would be on you? Read this article. America is a prison nation. We have five per cent of the world population, and twenty five per cent of the world's prisoners, including children. And now we are starting children concentration camps. America is a very sick country.

Credit: Daniel Schonherr/Eyeem

Despite a growing movement to end the practice of isolating humans in tiny cells for hours and days on end, prisoners are still held in solitary confinement in prisons and jails across the United States — including children. Consider Palm Beach, Florida, where a class-action lawsuit filed in a federal district court last week on behalf of three teenage boys held in the county jail is challenging the practice of placing children in solitary confinement with disturbing allegations against the local sheriff’s department and school board.

According to a complaint filed by human rights lawyers this month, boys aged 16 and 17 are held in solitary confinement at the Palm Beach County Jail for 23 or 24 hours a day, sometimes for weeks and even months on end. They are kept in quiet, tiny cells that contain only “a combined toilet and sink, a stainless steel desk and bolted-down stool, a steel bed with a thin mattress, and an overhead fluorescent light.” The bolted metal doors have two Plexiglas windows […]

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3 Comments

  1. Dariel Garner on Monday, July 2, 2018 at 5:13 am

    I just bought some free range eggs laid by hens that have 108 square feet of pasture for each in their flock. A solitary prison cell is 80 square feet. Space allocation for asylum seeking kids is as low as 40 square feet.
    What happens to a country that loses it’s heart? Where does it go?

  2. Charles Loch on Monday, July 2, 2018 at 11:52 am

    Who or what will save us from what this country is becoming?

  3. Will on Wednesday, July 4, 2018 at 4:52 am

    I don’t imagine the angels or the e.t.’s will be showing up to save us from our selves. Greed, arrogance, fear and righteousness have destroyed many civilizations after living too well for too long. Now it appears to be our turn as we take the rest of world down with us.

    Except there appears a wave of young, vital intelligent people male and female, particularly female who are rising to lead change that we all need. Maybe a trend that will over time renew our national life.