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The cruel reality of solitary confinement ought to shock all caring and thinking people One night in January of 2014, two prison guards at the Colorado State Penitentiary walked a man in handcuffs and an inmate’s uniform down the prison hallway and deposited him in a solitary cell designated “R.F.P. Ad. Seg.: Administrative Segregation, Removed from Population. Solitary confinement.” His time in that cell would be spent in crushing solitude; inside a small box almost completely removed from human interaction. He would not be alone in experiencing the quiet brutality of solitary confinement. Across the nation, between 50,000 and 60,000 other people were in boxes just like his, spending 22-24 hours of their day in a cell the size of a parking space. They would eat, sleep, and live penned in by cement walls and a steel door, never more than a few feet from their toilet. ....
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FLORENCE Calling the strain on correctional officers “ridiculous,” a union vice president is speaking out about short-staffing issues that worsened during the coronavirus pandemic at the four-prison Federal Bureau of Prisons complex near Florence. “We have a logistical nightmare,” said Christopher Tyndall, a correctional officer who has worked at the medium-security Federal Correctional Institution for 16 years. As vice president for the American Federation of Government Employees Local 1169 union, which represents employees at the complex, he is allowed to speak out about staffing issues. “Obviously morale is down because of staffing issues. Mandated overtime is affecting our health, sanity and marriages,” Tyndall explained. ....
CANON CITY One new coronavirus-related death has been reported in Fremont County, but officials are having challenges tracking exactly where it happened. According to statistics compiled by the Fremont County Department of Public Health, the county has had a total of eight COVID-19 related deaths. Five of those deaths have been among state prison inmates, confirmed by DOC Public Information Officer Annie Skinner. Fremont County Coroner Randy Keller reported only two of the eight deaths have been among community members. The first was an 81-year-old female who died Sept. 10 and the second occurred a couple of weeks ago at St. Thomas More Hospital in Canon City. ....