Colorado Senate bill would limit inmates' solitary confinement - The Denver Post
Colorado Senate bill would limit inmates' solitary confinement - The Denver Post The percentage of Colorado inmates with mental health problems who were placed in solitary confinement more than doubled between 1999 and 2008, and many were released from prison without having a chance to readjust to human interaction. Those findings from a 2008 Department of Corrections report have inspired two Colorado Democrats to pitch legislation aimed at limiting the number of mentally ill inmates who can be put in solitary confinement. Senate Bill 176, which gets its first hearing today, would require state prisons to have a physician evaluate inmates with such illnesses as bipolar mood disorders or paranoid schizophrenia before they are placed in solitary confinement. It also would limit solitary confinement stays to no more than 30 consecutive days and require that inmates integrate with the general prison population before being released from prison. The average stay in solitary confinement is 18 months, according to the DOC.
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