Young, Mentally Ill and Behind Bars
Aug 17, 2009, Letters to the Editor, New York Times
Re “Mentally Ill Offenders Stretch the Limits of Juvenile Justice” (front page, Aug. 10): Solitary confinement is among the harshest legal punishments that American society inflicts on its adult inmates. To inflict it on children is cruel and immoral. I studied suicides in New York State’s prisons over a six-year period and found that half occurred in solitary confinement units even though just 7 percent of the population was housed there. In 1890, the United States Supreme…
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