Olinda Moyd, a prison reform advocate who serves on a state correctional oversight board, said that whatever the label used to describe it, “isolation is isolation.” She described solitary confinement as a tool that is overused by prison administrators to control the population, despite the fact that is known to cause mental harm.
Maryland increasingly relies on isolating prisoners in ‘restrictive housing’
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Criminal justice reform advocates say the long stretches of forced solitude in Maryland are known to cause mental health issues and equate the conditions to torture.www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/maryland-medical-examiner-office-audit-take...
What you need to know about Maryland’s audit of police-custody deaths
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The audit’s implications reach far beyond a finding of 36 wrongfully classified deaths.A newly released audit says Maryland has failed to properly manage contracts with private companies that provide medical and mental health care to prisoners in state-run detention facilities
Health care for Maryland prisoners was compromised by poor oversight, audit finds
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A newly released audit says Maryland has failed to properly manage contracts with private companies that provide medical and mental health care to prisoners in state-run detention facilitiesPart of Desmond Haneef-Perry's job is to explain to judges why an incarcerated individual at a pretrial hearing not only needs services to overcome possible substance abuse or mental health issues, but also a second chance at life when eventually released from jail.
Justice reform advocates hoping for a second chance for Second Look Act - Maryland Matters
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Criminal justice reform advocates are hoping for a better outcome next year for teh Second Look Act, which would let long-serving prison inmates petition for a sentence reduction. The bill passed the ...Comment on Facebook Criminal justice ...
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