Lawsuit seeks to keep prisoners with mental illness out of Northern Correctional
Lawsuit seeks to keep prisoners with mental illness out of Northern Correctional Claims solitary confinement and in-cell shackling amount to discrimination A desk and a steel slab that would serve as a frame under a thin mattress at Northern Correctional Institution. The lawsuit alleges those incarcerated at the Somers prison spend up to 24 hours a day in their cells, confined to this space. The image is a still photo corrections officers took of an empty cell for a documentary about the prison, according to lawyers involved in the lawsuit. Northern Correctional Institution’s use of solitar...