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New look at solitary
Legal aid sources, monitoring group say New York prisons overuse "box"
By Alysia Santo | Updated 10:37 a.m., Monday, August 13, 2012
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This cell replica was placed in the hearing room of a Senate panel on solitary confinement. (U.S. Senate)
A chorus of prison watchdog groups is describing New York's solitary confinement practices as some of the worst in the nation.
Reams of testimony were submitted earlier this summer for a U.S. Senate hearing on solitary confinement, an extreme form of isolation used in prisons and jails around the country — generally the most severe disciplinary measure in American correctional institutions. Inmates remain in a cell about the size of a bathroom for 23 hours a day with little to no human contact.