What Solitary Did To Moochie — But Not Manafort [themarshallproject.org]

Alicia Doktor 7/31/184:00 AM

I ONCE BELIEVED the South Carolina Department of Corrections had done my oldest brother, Moochie, a great favor when it decided to place him in solitary confinement. Naively, I thought it would keep him safe, away from being raped or attacked by other prisoners.

I now know that even when a man leaves solitary, it may never leave him.

That’s why I initially empathized with Paul Manafort when reports surfaced that he had been placed in solitary while facing charges from the much-discussed Robert Mueller probe. Honestly, though, I was of two minds. I was irritated that people I had never heard say a single caring word about the incarcerated suddenly demand that criminal justice reform activists raise hell about Manafort’s treatment. The fate of a wealthy white man was important in a way the many black and brown men and women who have been mistreated by the system never were.

[For more on this story by ISSAC BAILEY, go to https://www.themarshallproject...anafort?ref=hp-2-121]

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Jane StevensPublisher, ACEsTooHigh; founder, PACEs Connection

That's interesting, Bob: a chaplain proposing solitary confinement....

7/31/183:57 PM

Robert OlcottMember

What I was able to view of the article, noted a "Super Max" penal facility-where all prisoners are kept in their cells 22-23 hours per day. That 'Super Max' facility was first proposed by Chaplain James T. Collins, in his testimony before the US House Committee on Un-American Activities, in his role as presiding officer of the American Correctional Chaplains Association as a way to address "militant prisoners". Bishop Sheen reportedly had 'a few short words' for him a short time after he'd presented his testimony...

7/31/188:47 AM

Robert OlcottMember

I've had a number of 'Solitary Confinements', the first being in a windowed unheated 'Teacher's closet'during a winter month, in first grade-in the two story/ two classroom schoolhouse where I attended first and second elementary grades. Later, as an adjudicated 'youthful offender' in a N.Y. 'Correctional Facility'. I'm going to [try to] view the entire article, as I don't yet know how it may have affected my 'sense of Attachment'....

7/31/188:32 AM

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