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Human Rights Watch Condemns Indiana Control Units
Loaded on June 15, 1998
by Daniel Burton-Rose
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1998, page 4
In October, 1997 the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) released Cold Storage: Super-Maximum Security Confinement in Indiana , a report on the Maximum Control Facility at Westville and the Secured Housing Unit at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility. Cold Storage vigorously condemns the extreme isolation regimen as …
Filed under:
Reviews,
International Law,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
Location:
Indiana.
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