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The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture?
“One of six monkeys isolated for three months refused to eat after release and died five days later.” After several weeks in the company of other monkeys, most of them adjusted—but not those who had been isolated for longer periods. “Twelve months of isolation almost obliterated the animals socially,” Harlow wrote. They became permanently withdrawn, and they lived as outcasts—regularly set upon, as if inviting abuse.
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Solitary confinement for students will continue: Oregon schools easily bypass ban on “isolation booths”
“You have two adults dragging you into a room and locking the door behind you and you’re just a little kid and you don’t know what’s going on…” via Police State USA – PORTLAND, OR — Last year, a parent’s … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Confined Kids, Ethics, Insanity, Public Safety, Reform, Solitary Confinement, Torture
Tagged Isolation booth, Oregon, PORTLAND, Solitary confinement, State school
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