Treating Those Excluded from the SHU

  • Organization: ACLU National Prison Project
  • Document Type: Article/News
  • Date Created: Tuesday, March 06, 2012
  • Attachment(s): PDF

By Terry Kupers, M.D., M.S.P.

With lock-down simpliciter ruled out, what should prisons do with the stream of "disturbed, disruptive" inmates entering their front doors? Courts are much better at telling folks what not to do; it's the orders to do that often encounter that ubiquitous sneer: They are micromanaging.

Dr. Kupers here provides a blueprint for complying with legal mandates and also succeeding. Compliance and success are not umbilically tied. This is a very important and easily digested article.

Topics:
  • Isolated Confinement (Segregation)