{"id":615,"date":"2012-12-12T12:43:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T17:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/?p=615"},"modified":"2015-06-22T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:18:08","slug":"us-teens-in-solitary-confinement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/2012\/12\/12\/us-teens-in-solitary-confinement\/","title":{"rendered":"US: Teens in Solitary Confinement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/files\/2012\/12\/2012_US_youthinsolitary_BD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-619\" title=\"Nick Bollea\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/files\/2012\/12\/2012_US_youthinsolitary_BD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=i7hynBLs1fU\">video<\/a> features American teens that have been held in solitary confinement telling their stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I would describe isolation to another person I would tell them it\u2019s bad. We didn\u2019t do anything wrong to be put in isolation. They say it\u2019s to protect us but I think it puts us in more danger\u2026 [H]ow could we be charged as men but be separated from men. It makes no sense. If that\u2019s the case, keep our cases at juvenile if they want to protect us.\u201d \u2013 \u201cCharles O.,\u201d Pennsylvania, April 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Kysel, Aryeh Neier Fellow with Human Rights Watch and the ACLU and author of the report stated, &#8220;Locking kids in solitary confinement with little or no contact with other people is cruel, harmful, and unnecessary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more from the Human Rights Watch article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2012\/10\/10\/us-teens-solitary-confinement\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video features American teens that have been held in solitary confinement telling their stories. \u201cIf I would describe isolation to another person I would tell them it\u2019s bad. We didn\u2019t do anything wrong to be put in isolation. They say it\u2019s to protect us but I think it puts us in more danger\u2026 [H]ow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national","category-prison-conditions","category-publications-and-advocacy","category-youth","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","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\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}