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2011
Department Implements Innovative Improvements to Disciplinary Segregation Unit
Changes to the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department’s Special Management Unit (aka the Disciplinary Unit or Segregation Unit) that result in fewer segregated inmates and ensure facility and staff safety are explained. Topics discussed include: the age... Read More
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2010 NIC Publication
The Effects of Solitary Confinement: Commentary on One Year Longitudinal Study of the Psychological Effects of Administrative Segregation
The author comments on research done by the Colorado Department of Corrections and the University of Colorado’s Department of Psychology concerning the effects of solitary confinement. Sections of this article include: the Colorado study; why availab... Read More
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2010
One Year Longitudinal Study of the Psychological Effects of Administrative Segregation
The impact of long-term administrative segregation (AS) on mentally ill offenders is examined. In particular, this study looked at which psychological domains are affected by long-term AS, the differential impact of AS on the mentally ill, and a comp... Read More
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2009
Segregation: Perils & Possibilities: How the Hampden County Sheriff's Department Transformed It's Segregation Unit [and] Segregation Transformation: Fact Sheet
Information is provided about the transformational change experienced in the Segregation Unit of the Hampden County Sheriff's Department. The first document of this collection contains copies of overheads for a presentation about the Segregation Unit... Read More
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2009
Prolonged Solitary Confinement and the Constitution
The "increasing practice of prolonged or permanent solitary confinement [i.e., supermax prisons] constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Constitution, and whether it violates the due process rights of the prisoners so confined" ... Read More
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