President Obama tours the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in Oklahoma in July 2015. Kevin Lamarque / Reuters President Obama has issued executive actions to ban the use of solitary confinement for juvenile offenders in federal prisons across the country. Obama wrote in a Washington Post op-ed that ran in the Tuesday edition of the newspaper that solitary confinement is overused and can lead to dangerous psychological consequences.
Obama's Executive Actions On Solitary Confinement
Marina Koren, The Atlantic: Politics
Tue, 01/26/2016 - 8:19am
Topics: el reno federal correctional institution oklahoma july kevin lamarque reuters president obama washington post ldquo;in america federal bureau post&rsquo juliet eilperin white federal prisons justice department new york civil liberties union september california pelican bay state prison matt ford united states president obama obama house prisons new york executive actions solitary confinement inmates housing prisoners restrictive wrote people offenders reforms juvenile year return isolation units wardens op-ed solitary-confinement
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