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Maine: 50 Gather to learn about LD 1611 which would limit the use of solitary confinement

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The bill would limit stays in the state?s special management units to 45 days and would prohibit ?seriously? mentally ill prisoners from being placed there, Levasseur said. ?This bill doesn?t go far enough, in my opinion,? he said. ?I think it?s like putting a bandage on a sucking chest wound. But it does something.? 50 gather to learn about solitary confinement By Abigail Curtis Bangor Daily News Staff BELFAST, Maine ? More than 50 people gathered Wednesday night at the Belfast Free Library to learn more about the practice of solitary confinement for prison inmates. Many wanted to find out what they could do to sway Maine lawmakers against the practice. The bill would limit stays in the state?s special management units to 45 days and would prohibit ?seriously? mentally ill prisoners from being placed there, Levasseur said...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 19, 2010 (boomark / email).