Louisiana Policy Intended to Reform Solitary Confinement Still Leaves People In Indefinite Lockdown
Officials say the total number of people in restrictive housing has gone down, but the state doesn’t keep enough data to substantiate that claim.
15 December 2021
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Officials say the total number of people in restrictive housing has gone down, but the state doesn’t keep enough data to substantiate that claim.
15 December 2021
Kermit Parker — also known as inmate No. 129332 — wouldn’t get on his knees. Officers were seeking to restrain Parker, who, along with scores of other incarcerated people, had been on hunger strike to protest solitary confinement conditions at Louisiana’s David Wade Correctional Center in July. When he wouldn’t kneel, the officers yelled, pepper-sprayed and shackled him, and wrote him up. The charge? “Aggravated disobedience.” The punishment? A month and a half in solitary confinement. The suffocating walls, the eerie darkness, and the rock-hard, stone-cold floor of the 3.5-foot by 8.5-foot cell were familiar to Parker. A year and ...
Louisiana Policy Intended to Reform Solitary Confinement Still Leaves People in Indefinite Lockdown
Officials say the total number of people in restrictive housing has gone down, but the state doesn’t keep enough data to substantiate that claim.
theintercept.com