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Juvenile Solitary Confinement: Modern-Day ‘Torture’ in the US
Ryan Schill / JJIE As a 17-year-old, Michael Kemp says, he felt like a caged animal. For six months, his world was reduced to the size of a Washington, D.C., jail cell measuring maybe 8 feet by 10...
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N.J. Solitary Confinement: Extreme Cases of Life ‘In the Box’
Photo courtesy New Jersey Juvenile Justice CommissionInside the New Jersey Training School Nothing in attorney Sandra Simkins’ 15-year career could prepare her for the sight of Troy D. “In all the time...
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Justice Department Seeks to Stop Ohio Solitary Confinement of Mentally Ill Boys
ThinkStock The U.S. Justice Department says it has asked a federal court to prevent the Ohio Department of Youth Services from unlawfully placing boys with mental health disorders in solitary...
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Reporter’s Notebook: A Question of Intention and Juvenile Solitary Confinement
Ryan Schill / JJIE A short drive outside the downtown of a small east Alabama city, set back from the road among the trees on a low hill, is an unassuming, one-story brick building. The bulky,...
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Growing Number of States Moving Away from Juvenile Solitary Confinement
Photo Courtesy of the Massachusetts Department of Youth ServicesYouths work on a math and science activity board at the Metro Youth Service Center, a juvenile detention facility in Boston. The...
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Holder Speaks Out Against Solitary Confinement of Mentally Ill Youths
video screenshot / USDOJIn a video, Attorney General Holder spoke out against excessive use of isolation and solitary confinement for young people with disabilities at juvenile detention centers. U.S....
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Revised JDAI Standards Call for End to Unnecessary Solitary Confinement
Amid growing outcry over solitary confinement of juveniles, the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation is calling for an end to the practice except as a short-term response to behavior that...
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OP-ED: California Bill Can End Solitary Confinement for Youth
During the fall of 2013, Rosemary Summers, a 16-year-old from San Diego County, Calif., committed suicide at a juvenile hall called the Girls Rehabilitation Facility. She ended up there for failing to...
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New Jersey Laws Could Pave Way for More Reforms
On Jan. 8, 2014, 13-year-old Angel Mercado-Santiago was shot and killed outside his school in Atlantic City, N.J. Jerome Ford, a 14-year-old, turned himself into the police a few days later. Violent...
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Connecticut Concerns about Youth Incarceration Mirror National Debate
In video footage (above) released today from inside Connecticut’s juvenile correctional facilities, a distressed girl screams as she is restrained on the ground in a corridor. She is left alone in a...
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NY Activists Urge End to Solitary Confinement in Corrections
NEW YORK — Correctional officers brought Tama Bell’s mentally ill son to the brink of suicide for throwing a rag on a table, she says. Bell’s son, Masai, was at Mid-State Correctional Facility in...
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