LINKTV Democracy Now April 1, 2014
Surrendering. In a mentally ill prisoner dies in solitary confinement in new yorks Rikers Island. When you put a person in the shu brought to two months, six months, you are breaking this persons mental capacity down to zero. He did something bad, fine. But treat him as a human being, not like an animal. He has rights. We will look at mounting pressure on jails and prisons to reform their use of solitary confinement. We will speak with the psychiatrist who is helping to reduce violence and prisons in the president of the texas correctional employees, the union which represents texas prison gua...