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Maine: Our View: Overuse of prison isolation issue that should not go away

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Our View: Overuse of prison isolation issue that should not go away The Portland (Maine) Press Herald April 8, 2010 Backers of a bill that would limit the use of solitary confinement in Maine prisons did not get most of what they wanted this legislative session. Their bill, sponsored by Rep. Jim Schatz, D-Blue Hill, would have prohibited the prolonged use of isolation for prisoners with mental illness. Instead, what passed is a directive to the Department of Corrections to review the policies that could end with a prisoner in solitary confinement. That review could point to ways in which the state could tighten up its regulations so that prison officials can maintain security without doing harm to the mental health of prisoners. A growing body of opinion in the scientific world is finding that long-term isolation can cause permanent brain damage...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 08, 2010 (boomark / email).