maskedmelon
07-07-2016, 09:43 AM
Failing to put and end to inhumane practices in then New York prison system New York City's first Democrat Mayor in over 20 years, Bill De Blasio recently requested an extension on the city's pledge to end solitary confinement.
The effort has necessitated increases of over 400% in prison guard staffing to combat the increased violence resulting from desegregation of young and violent inmates while abuse of young inmates by other inmates has surged.
The New York Times assumed the thankless task of interviewing some of the disadvantaged young men confined to "the box", prison speak for solitary confinement. All of the inmates shared similar sentiments. The bitter injustice of the box offers inmates reprieve from the violence issued upon them in the general population, but denies them the basic privileges afforded that population.
The truth is rapidly materializing. It may well be time for universal solitary confinement with gen-pop amenities.
Source (http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/08/nyregion/rikers-island-solitary-confinement.html?_r=0&referer=https://www.google.com/)
The effort has necessitated increases of over 400% in prison guard staffing to combat the increased violence resulting from desegregation of young and violent inmates while abuse of young inmates by other inmates has surged.
The New York Times assumed the thankless task of interviewing some of the disadvantaged young men confined to "the box", prison speak for solitary confinement. All of the inmates shared similar sentiments. The bitter injustice of the box offers inmates reprieve from the violence issued upon them in the general population, but denies them the basic privileges afforded that population.
The truth is rapidly materializing. It may well be time for universal solitary confinement with gen-pop amenities.
Source (http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/08/nyregion/rikers-island-solitary-confinement.html?_r=0&referer=https://www.google.com/)