{"id":166,"date":"2011-11-06T23:28:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T04:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/?p=166"},"modified":"2015-06-22T16:18:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:18:48","slug":"new-york-times-piece-highlights-the-damaging-effects-of-solitary-confinement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/2011\/11\/06\/new-york-times-piece-highlights-the-damaging-effects-of-solitary-confinement\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times piece highlights the damaging effects of solitary confinement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/files\/2011\/11\/06SOLITARY-popup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-167\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/files\/2011\/11\/06SOLITARY-popup-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/06\/opinion\/sunday\/in-an-iranian-prison-tortured-by-solitude.html?_r=1\">opinion piece<\/a> in the the New York Times, Sarah Shourd connects her experience in Iran&#8217;s Evin Prison, where she was held in solitary confinement for 14 and a half months, to the use of solitary confinement in the United States. \u00a0Reflecting further on this piece, it is clear that policies around solitary confinement are a very real concern in Massachusetts, particularly, where we have one of the highest inmate suicide rates in the country &#8212; due at least in part to the overuse of solitary confinement in response to symptoms of mental illness. \u00a0This is a timely and important discussion, especially when placed in an international context as it is here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent opinion piece in the the New York Times, Sarah Shourd connects her experience in Iran&#8217;s Evin Prison, where she was held in solitary confinement for 14 and a half months, to the use of solitary confinement in the United States. \u00a0Reflecting further on this piece, it is clear that policies around solitary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prison-conditions","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}