For years, New York City’s Department of Correction has worked to conceal its practice of putting adolescent inmates in solitary confinement. But this week, the agency announced plans to eliminate such confinement for 16- and 17-year-old inmates.
The swift action indicates that juvenile solitary confinement has become a human rights issue that officials nationwide can no longer ignore.
The changes come after several months of media scrutiny and a critical U.S. Department of Justice investigation calling on the agency to revamp its treatment of adolescents. The Center for Investigative Reporting was the first to report on the issue earlier this year. Here are some key things to understand about juvenile solitary confinement in the U.S. and the efforts to reform it.
[For more of this story, written by Trey Bundy and Daffodil J. Altan, go to https://beta.cironline.org/rep...onfinement-now-what/]
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