by Michael Chancellor | Dec 29, 2021 | Opinion
I spent nearly six years leading the mental health department at the Allan B. Polunsky Maximum Security Prison in east Texas. This prison housed “death row” (DR), as well as a significant number of offenders in administrative segregation (AdSeg), more widely referred...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Oct 22, 2018 | News
The use of restrictive housing (“solitary confinement”) in U.S. prisons is becoming less common, yet 61,000 prisoners were still held in these conditions in the fall of 2017, including more than 4,000 persons diagnosed with a serious mental illness. These were two key...
