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Solitary confinement: abolition needed, not regulation

The federal government has been embarrassed into action by scandalous cases of inmates left in solitary for months or even years. It began reducing its use of solitary in 2014, to find, in a review in 2016, that there was no increase in danger to staff. Yet it continues to believe that solitary is needed. It's not.

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BY LYNN MCDONALD
December 4, 2017

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