In New York State, lawmakers in 2021 limited solitary confinement to no more than 15 consecutive days.
The bill would ban the practice beyond a four-hour “de-escalation” period during an emergency.
I don’t know enough about prisons or psychiatry to say whether 15 days is too long, but four hours seems like a rather short time. People who aren’t in prison routinely spend more time than that alone as part of a normal day.
There’s a major difference between being forced into being alone (doing nothing) and choosing to spend the evening at home watching Netflix
How about being sent to in-school suspension? Cuz I definitely did plenty of time sitting in a quiet room with nothing to do and no human contact for an entire school day.
That treatment sucks too especially for kids. What was the purpose? Retribution?
Well if I’m being disruptive in class then I’m a detriment to the education of other students; it’s not like class sizes are small enough that the teacher has time to deal with me. It’s a limitation created by understaffing, I think.
Your ISS may have been different from mime, but we still had to do our schoolwork for the day. Even that is far different than nothing
I didn’t actually get to do schoolwork, probably because no one was watching me. I was just sent to sit quietly in a room with nothing to do for the entire day, completely alone.
