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Changed Hearts in Solitary Confinement
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Throwback Thursday: Changed Hearts in Solitary Confinement

"Javier,* what has happened to your heart?" I asked. I brushed tears from my eyes as I glanced away from his tightly cuffed wrists.

By Prison Fellowship
May 4, 2017
Mentoring Prisoners | Pennsylvania | Solitary Confinement
House mentoring restores prisoners
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To Isolate or Invest? How Mentoring Restores Prisoners

Cindy Sanford is a self-proclaimed "tough on crime" advocate whose accidental meeting with a juvenile lifer strengthened her faith and led her into prison ministry. She is a registered nurse and the wife of a retired law enforcement officer.  Cindy and her husband Keith are both official visitors for the Pennsylvania Prison Society. 

By Cindy Sanford
February 8, 2017
In-Prison Mentor | isolation | Mentoring Prisoners | Solitary Confinement
New HBO Doc Solitary Goes Inside Supermax Prison
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New HBO Doc ‘Solitary’ Goes Inside Supermax Prison

There are currently 44 state and federal prisons in America classified as "supermax" prisons. These prisons house their entire incarcerated population in solitary confinement.

As "black sites," supermax prisons have been off-limits to the public and the press.

Until now.

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By Emily Harris Greene
January 31, 2017
documentary | HBO | isolation | Red Onion | SOLITARY | Solitary Confinement
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Living Life in ‘The Hole’

When the Washington State DOC’s former chief Bernard Warner describes solitary confinement, he doesn’t sugarcoat it. “I saw firsthand the conditions and environment in those housing units,” he tells TakePart.com. “It was pretty horrific.”

The Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that around 20 percent of prisoners have spent time in solitary confinement.  

By Emily Andrews
October 5, 2016
Colorado | Lance Lowry | Rick Raemisch | SHU | Solitary Confinement | takepart.com | Washington
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NC Announces New Youthful Offender Program

The North Carolina prison system announced that they will put an end to solitary confinement for juvenile offenders in the prison system. Historically, youth were placed in solitary confinement if they seriously violated prison rules.

By this September, the N.C. Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice will launch a Youthful Offender Program that will provide education, mental and behavioral health counseling, life skills classes, and family and community reunification services.

By Breanna Atkinson
June 27, 2016
Creating a Constructive Prison Culture | North Carolina | Solitary Confinement | Youthful Offender Program
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Changed Hearts in Solitary

Cindy Sanford is the author of  Letters to a Lifer: The Boy ‘Never to be Released.’  Visit her website at letters2alifer.blogspot.com.

“Javier,* what has happened to your heart?” I asked. I brushed tears from my eyes as I glanced away from his tightly cuffed wrists.

By Cindy Sanford
May 9, 2016
Cindy Sanford | Hunger Strike | Pennsylvania | Solitary Confinement
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Corrections Official Spends Night in Solitary

As the newly appointed executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections, Rick Raemisch spent the night of Jan. 23 in solitary confinement at a state penitentiary.

By Rebekah L. Stratton
March 7, 2014
Colorado | Justice Fellowship | reform | rehabilitation | Solitary Confinement
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California Prisoners Begin Hunger Strike over Solitary Confinement

More than 12,000 prisoners in the California correctional system have entered into a hunger strike to protest solitary confinement practices in the state’s prisons.  The hunger strike is the largest of its kind in California history, nearly doubling a similar hunger strike in 2011.

By Steve Rempe
July 13, 2013
California | Hunger Strike | Solitary Confinement
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In Memory of a Slain Leader

The appalling murder of Tom Clements, the executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections, appears to be part of a growing trend of violence against criminal justice officials. Since the beginning of the year, brazen attacks have also taken the lives of the Kaufman County, Texas, district attorney, his wife, and a lead prosecutor.

By Jim Liske
April 17, 2013
Colorado | From the CEO | Solitary Confinement | Tom Clements

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