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Alone & Afraid: Children Held in Solitary Confinement and Isolation in Juvenile Detention and Correctional Facilities, American Civil Liberties Union (June 2014)  Review


Author:  Fred Cohen .


Source: Volume 16, Number 04, November/December 2014 , pp.56-57(2)




Correctional Mental Health Report

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Abstract: 

A review of the Report which discusses the harm solitary causes children in the framework of developmental psychology. The Report also emphasizes the alternatives available in lieu of isolation; the need for rich staffing and working with the juveniles not the meting out days of isolation.

Keywords: penal isolation; deprivation of social interaction, services, programming and other tools needed for healthy growth, education, and development.

Affiliations:  1: Executive Editor.

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