[www-features] Re: Posted: Deaths in isolation as prison segregation increases

[Stacy Scheff]

Hi duende,

Thanks very much!

I'd prefer to have the text about Harm-U in the abstract, but if
it's a lot of trouble, don't worry about it.

cheers,

stacy

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, duende wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> Feature posted.
> 
> Stacy, can you have a look at it? I supposed it was not meant to have 
> the same text about Harm-U in the abstract and in the body. I removed it 
> from the abstract. Is it ok?
> 
> thx
> 
> dd
> 
> 
> stacy at cat.org.au wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Can this go up now?
> >
> >cheers,
> >
> >stacy
> >
> >Quoting stacy at cat.org.au:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Okay, take two!
> >>
> >>The first part would be for the feature, and the part marked BODY, which
> >>is the
> >>full version posted earlier, would be the "read more" part.
> >>
> >>Hope this is ok.
> >>
> >>cheers,
> >>
> >>stacy
> >>
> >>--------
> >>
> >><b>Deaths in isolation as prison segregation increases</p>
> >>Image: http://melbourne.indymedia.org/uploads/seg.jpg
> >>
> >><p>The use of segregation of prisoners as punishment has been
> >>increasing
> >>recently in Australia, the US, and the UK.  Segregation can be used
> >>for
> >>protection or punishment, but in both cases it results in extreme
> >>psychological
> >>stress.  An indication that  segregation is being over-used is the
> >>appearance of
> >>deaths in custody from suicide of those placed in segregation.</p>
> >>
> >><p>From New York: <a
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >href="http://www.brisbane.indymedia.org.au/front.php3?article_id=15395&group=webcast"><b>A
> >  
> >
> >>Death in the Box </b></a>.  A mentally ill young woman died in the
> >>most
> >>stressful and isolating place in the New York state prison system.
> >>Jessica
> >>Roger, 21, killed herself in the "box" and many thought she didn't
> >>belong there.</p>
> >>
> >><p>From the UK: <a
> >>href="http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/86662.php"><b>Put
> >>in the
> >>way of self-harm in a place intended to protect others</b></a>.  Sarah
> >>Campbell,
> >>18, spent the last hours of her life in the segregation unit of Styal
> >>prison,
> >>Cheshire.<br>
> >><a
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >href="http://www.sydney.indymedia.org.au/front.php3?article_id=49266&group=webcast"><b>Out
> >  
> >
> >>of sight but in our minds</b></a>.  In recent years conditions in high
> >>security
> >>segregation units have deteriorated, and the use of long-term
> >>segregation as a
> >>control mechanism has increased.   
> >><a href="http://www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com/frfi/">Fight Racism
> >>Fight
> >>Imperialism (FRFI)</a> asked some of our readers in gaol to send us
> >>their views
> >>and experiences.</p>
> >>
> >><p>From Australia: <b><a
> >>href="http://www.sistersinside.com.au/>Sisters
> >>Inside</a>, a Queensland abolitionist group <a
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >href="http://brisbane.indymedia.org.au/front.php3?article_id=11236&group=webcast">likens
> >  
> >
> >>Australian prisons to Abu Ghraib</b></a><br>.  
> >><b>Harm-U</b>Human rights group <a
> >>href="http://www.justiceaction.org.au">Justice Action</a> is calling for
> >>an
> >>independent inspection of the isolation unit at Goulburn known as the
> >>High Risk
> >>Management Unit due to conditions which violate <a
> >>href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/h_comp35.htm">UN Standards</a>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>BODY
> >>
> >>
> >><b>Deaths in isolation as prison segregation increases</p>
> >>
> >>Charity likens Australian prisons to Abu Ghraib</b><br>
> >>AUS:"When you look at the photographs that are coming out of Abu Ghraib
> >>and the
> >>stories, they're the same stories we hear on a daily basis in our
> >>prisons," said
> >>Debbie Kilroy of Queensland abolitionist group <a
> >>href="http://www.sistersinside.com.au/>Sisters Inside</a><br>
> >><a
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >href="http://brisbane.indymedia.org.au/front.php3?article_id=11236&group=webcast">More</a></p>
> >  
> >
> >><p><b>Harm-U</b><br>
> >>AUS: Human rights group <a
> >>href="http://www.justiceaction.org.au">Justice
> >>Action</a> is calling for an independent inspection of the isolation
> >>unit at
> >>Goulburn known as the High Risk Management Unit due to conditions which
> >>violate
> >><a href="http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/h_comp35.htm">UN
> >>Standards</a>. <br>
> >><a href="http://sydney.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=36535">A
> >>Total Abuse
> >>of Power</a><br>
> >><a
> >>href="http://www.adelaide.indymedia.org.au/newswire/display/7736/index.php">When
> >>the Norm is Not the Norm</a></p>
> >>
> >><p><b>Isolation, psychiatric treatment and prisoner control </b><br>
> >>Prisoners can, and have died as a result of injectable anti-psychotics,
> >>and that
> >>this is a worry regarding Deaths in Custody, as well as being an
> >>extremely
> >>harrowing experience to undergo if it doesn't kill you. <br>
> >><a
> >>href="https://www1.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/12/302435.html">More</a></p>
> >>
> >><p><b>A Death in the Box </b><br>
> >>US: A mentally ill young woman died in the most stressful and isolating
> >>place in
> >>the New York state prison system. Jessica Roger, 21, killed herself in
> >>the "box"
> >>and many thought she didn't belong there. The box is the most severe
> >>punishment
> >>in prison: the final threat, the ultimate time out. It is a small barren
> >>chamber
> >>set apart from the general population with a concrete floor, a steel
> >>door and no
> >>clock to mark the time.<br>
> >><a
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >href="http://www.brisbane.indymedia.org.au/front.php3?article_id=15395&group=webcast">More</a></p>
> >  
> >
> >><p><b>Put in the way of self-harm in a place intended to protect
> >>others</b><br>
> >>UK: Sarah Campbell, 18, spent the last hours of her life in the
> >>segregation unit
> >>of Styal prison, Cheshire. "The seg", as those places are referred to,
> >>used to
> >>be known as "the block", short for punishment block. They are, by
> >>design, bleak,
> >>soulless places, prisons within prisons, where those who have offended
> >>against
> >>the "good order and discipline" of the establishment are meant to dwell
> >>and
> >>reflect upon the error of their ways.<br>
> >><a
> >>href="http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/86662.php">More</a></p>
> >>
> >><p><b>Out of sight but in our minds<br>
> >>UK: In recent years conditions in high security segregation units have
> >>deteriorated, and the use of long-term segregation as a control
> >>mechanism has
> >>increased.   
> >><a href="http://www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com/frfi/">Fight Racism
> >>Fight
> >>Imperialism (FRFI)</a> asked some of our readers in gaol to send us
> >>their views
> >>and experiences.<br>
> >>
> >><a
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >href="http://www.sydney.indymedia.org.au/front.php3?article_id=49266&group=webcast">More</a>
> >  
> >
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