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All posts tagged "solitary"
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797NewsChildren face solitary confinement in cells at Illinois juvenile detention facility, ACLU says
"We're supposed to be using the juvenile legal system for rehabilitation and not punishment."
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1.9KNewsShackles and Solitary: Inside Louisiana’s Harshest Juvenile Lockup
Scrambling to respond to a wave of violence and escapes from other juvenile detention facilities, Louisiana state officials quietly opened the high-security...
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813From the Bureaus17 Rikers Workers to Be Disciplined for Transgender Woman’s Death in Solitary
The New York City Department of Corrections will discipline 17 officers for their conduct surrounding the death of 27-year-old Layleen Polanco, a...
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2.5KFrom the BureausTrans Woman Who Died at Rikers Created Chain Reaction of Kindness, Friends Say
The first time Christina Vengerovsky met Layleen Cubilette-Polanco was on Christopher Street in the summer of 2010. Her friends had been talking...
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1.3KGuest Opinion EssayBoost Education for Youth in Solitary With More Books, Workbooks, Graphic Novels, Audiobooks
Advocates often urge the dismantling of the school-to-prison pipeline. But for many of our youth, prisons are already their schools. In 1954,...
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1.9KGuest Opinion EssayWhy Neuroscience, Positive Feedback Are Transformative in Youth Work
I am a long-time advocate for how the power of neuroscience can transform the youth-serving profession. When...
