Report blasts Georgia solitary confinement as 'draconian'
Source: Associated Press
Kate Brumback, Associated Press
Updated 4:45 pm CDT, Tuesday, July 10, 2018
ATLANTA (AP) Georgia's most restrictive solitary confinement facility deprives prisoners of basic human needs and risks causing them psychological harm, according to an expert report filed in federal court.
The report was filed under seal as part of an ongoing challenge to the conditions in the Special Management Unit of the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. A redacted version accessible to the public was filed Tuesday.
The unit "so severely and completely deprives prisoners of meaningful social contact and positive environmental stimulation that it puts them at significant risk of very serious psychological harm," University of California, Santa Cruz psychology professor Craig Haney wrote. "That psychological harm may be irreversible and even fatal."
Haney, who has toured maximum-security prisons in about two-dozen states as well as federal maximum-security facilities, writes that the unit is "one of the harshest and most draconian" he has seen.
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(17 posts)Georgia is one of 4 southern states with 150 to 200 years of racist execution patterns The others are TX, AL, FL These 4 have had executions this year
https://deathpenaltyinfo. org/execution-list-2018
OH, NV, NB, and TN are all threatening executions