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  • broadcast cover for Options for Managing Difficult Inmates [Videoconference held on June 13, 2001]

    Options for Managing Difficult Inmates [Videoconference held on June 13, 2001]

    Difficult inmates, such as those who have gang affiliations, chronic behavioral problems or who are mentally or socially challenged, require more c
  • Document cover for supermax prisons and the constitution, liability concerns in the extended control unit

    Supermax Prisons and the Constitution: Liability Concerns in the Extended Control Unit

    A monograph "intended to help prisons operate ultra-high-security facilities in a way that minimizes liability in litigation" is presented (p. v).
  • document preview of The Effects of Solitary Confinement: Commentary on One Year Longitudinal Study of the Psychological Effects of Administrative Segregation

    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
  • document preview for Change Is Possible: A Case Study of Solitary Confinement Reform in Maine

    Change Is Possible: A Case Study of Solitary Confinement Reform in Maine

    The successful efforts of individuals to reduce the use of solitary confinement and to make the conditions found in solitary settings are described
  • document cover for Bureau of Prisons: Improvements Needed in Bureau of Prisons' Monitoring and Evaluation of Impact of Segregated Housing

    Bureau of Prisons: Improvements Needed in Bureau of Prisons' Monitoring and Evaluation of Impact of Segregated Housing

    The segregated housing unit practices of the United States Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and compliance with them are reviewed.
  • document preview for Solitary Confinement and Risk of Self-harm Among Jail Inmates

    Solitary Confinement and Risk of Self-harm Among Jail Inmates

    “Those who harm themselves while in solitary confinement may be diverted from that punitive setting to a therapeutic setting outside solitary confi
  • website screenshot of Reassessing Solitary Confinement II: The Human Rights, Fiscal, and Public Safety Consequences

    Reassessing Solitary Confinement II: The Human Rights, Fiscal, and Public Safety Consequences

    This webcast is the second to address issues associated with the wide use of solitary confinement in the United States.
  • document cover of Worse than Second-Class: Solitary Confinement of Women in the United States

    Worse than Second-Class: Solitary Confinement of Women in the United States

    "More than 200,000 women are locked in jails and prisons in the United States.
  • video preview for Alone: Teens in Solitary Confinement

    Alone: Teens in Solitary Confinement

    This is an important video to see, especially following U.S.
  • screenshot of Podcast: How to Fix America's Solitary Problem

    Podcast: How to Fix America's Solitary Problem

    "Critics say it’s expensive, ineffective and even dangerous, but the U.S.

  • First Jail Restrictive Housing Training Program Developed

    Following over four years of successful trainings to prison professionals around the country, the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) entered into a cooperative agreement with CJI to expand its Managing Prison Restrictive Housing Populations program and to create a Managing Jail Restrictive Housing Populations curriculum.

  • First Jail Restrictive Housing Training Program Developed

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    Following over four years of successful trainings to prison professionals around the country, the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) entered into a cooperative agreement with CJI to expand its Managing Prison Restrictive Housing Populations program and to create a Managing Jail Restrictive Housing Populations curriculum.

  • Reforming solitary confinement: the development, implementation, and processes of a restrictive housing step down reentry program in Oregon

    Over the past decade there have been numerous and impassioned calls to reform the practice of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons.

  • Time-In-Cell: A 2021 Snapshot of Restrictive Housing based on a Nationwide Survey of U.S. Prison Systems (2022)

    This Overview previews some of the findings in this Report.