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Serious Reflections about Solitary Confinement in Prisons (Way too many who aren't even charged with a crime)...and more on 12/31/19

on Tue, 12/31/2019 - 16:47

"Like most jails, three-quarters or more of inmates had not been convicted of a crime and yet spent months and sometimes years awaiting trial in isolation." That has huge implications for the public to consider. People can be arrested and held without having been convicted of a crime. When do kids learn this in school, or their parents or adults in general? In NYC there is a growing effort to not hold people who cannot make bail (Jail Without Bail) as much.

 I'll look more into this in 2020..but my bigger question is Why Doesn't Every State have an ongoing education campaign for all people