Obama restricts use of solitary confinement (violent crime, federal, depression, prison)
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Why? If a juvenile inmate commits an act that warrants solitary, why should he or she be spared from it? A violent act by a juvenile is the same as a violent act from an adult. I will concede that it depends on the amount of time in solitary confinement.
Any such arbitrary and broadly sweeping mandate is fraught with potential disaster. The need may arise for a prison to put a juvenile into solitary. If there is a need to put anyone into solitary, then that need is likely to arise for 15, 16, and 17 year olds. It is impossible for Obama to magically foresee the unintended bad consequences here.
Why? If a juvenile inmate commits an act that warrants solitary, why should he or she be spared from it? A violent act by a juvenile is the same as a violent act from an adult. I will concede that it depends on the amount of time in solitary confinement.
"Obama said research suggests solitary confinement has been linked to depression, alienation, withdrawal, a reduced ability to interact with others and the potential for violent behavior."
You can't just blanket apply this as a standard. There is a reason people get put into solitary. If its a violent crime originally committed, screw their depression. How does the victim or their family feel?
A simple pot possession, sure, rethink the use of solitary. It should be case-dependent and not a blanket policy.
Again sticking his nose where it doesn't belong. Doesn't he have something better to do, like try to run the country... And not into the ground. This issue is beneath the level of concern for the Chief Executive.
Again sticking his nose where it doesn't belong. Doesn't he have something better to do, like try to run the country... And not into the ground. This issue is beneath the level of concern for the Chief Executive.
The POTUS certainly has the right, and indeed, the duty, to "stick his nose" into the treatment of federal prisoners.
The POTUS certainly has the right, and indeed, the duty, to "stick his nose" into the treatment of federal prisoners.
Where in the Constitution in the President afforded the power to act unilaterally with regard to the operations of a federal prison? I was not aware that the President had that kind of power.
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