Due Process
Solitary: Cruel and Unusual?
Special | 26m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
An inside look at solitary confinement in New Jersey, and new efforts to combat it.
Opponents say it's cruel and unusual; corrections officials say it doesn't even exist any longer in New Jersey - but at least 1,500 state inmates are still held in isolation. In the studio: Rev. Seth Kaper-Dale of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, former NYC Corrections Commissioner Martin Horn, and Lance Lopez, president of the corrections officers union.
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Due Process is a local public television program presented by NJ PBS
Due Process
Solitary: Cruel and Unusual?
Special | 26m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
Opponents say it's cruel and unusual; corrections officials say it doesn't even exist any longer in New Jersey - but at least 1,500 state inmates are still held in isolation. In the studio: Rev. Seth Kaper-Dale of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, former NYC Corrections Commissioner Martin Horn, and Lance Lopez, president of the corrections officers union.
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