Amnesty Prison Report Slams California Prisons' Solitary Confinement Policy

It's not just in California - It's happening everywhere.  

New York Prisoner Gets Five Years in Solitary for Cell Phone Smuggled in by Guard 

Long stretches in solitary confinement is an everyday punishment in New York State prisons. Currently, about 4,500 inmates are serving time in some form of 23-hour-a-day lockdown, with sentences ranging from months to decades. As we wrote in an earlier article, New York leads the nation in the use of "disciplinary segregation," and isolation "is very much a punishment of first resort, doled out for minor rule violations as well as major offenses. In New York, the most common reason for a stint in solitary is creating a 'disturbance' or 'demonstration.'...Second is 'dirty urine'—testing positive for drugs of any kind...Other infractions include refusing to obey orders, 'interfering with employees,' being 'out of place' and possession of contraband—not only a shiv but a joint, a cellphone or too many postage stamps.

This is what happens when liberals don't run government.  

Uninformed citizens may feel safer, may believe that if someone is in prison they deserve to be tortured, but the truth is that most inmates are in prison for non-violent offenses (most drug or drug-related), and will come out of prison eventually.  And when they come out, are they ever educated in the ways of violence, hate and abuse (more men are raped, in and out of prison, than women everywhere).  
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