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Abstract: 

Consensus is clearly developing on the need to end widespread use of administrative segregation—it is finding a practical way to reduce its use while maintaining order that is proving so difficult. Changing the culture in prisons is essential, but will take time. One immediate improvement, however, would be to reduce the conflicts that often escalate into serious encounters between staff and inmates and which, in turn, often lead to solitary confinement. Recently the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors published a technical report presenting Six Core Strategies to Prevent Conflict and Violence (ie, the 6CS program). Its insightful and helpful conclusions are summarized here.

Keywords: Standard 23-2.7,8,9; Resolution #24; The Dangerous Overuse of Solitary Confinement in the United States (August 2014); 6CS program

Affiliations:  1: Executive Editor.