[Peace-discuss] ACLU: end solitary confinement for kids

[Robert Naiman]

Dear friend,

Thank you for signing the petition calling on Attorney General Eric
Holder to ban the practice of solitary confinement of youth in the
care of the federal government. You can help create a national outcry
about the devastation that solitary causes by spreading the word to
your friends - just forward the email below.

Thank you,

The ACLU Action Team

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Dear friend,

I just learned that kids as young as 13 are held in solitary
confinement in prison—locked up in cells away from human contact for
days or months at a time all across the country. It's one of the most
extreme forms of punishment possible. It doesn’t rehabilitate. It
doesn’t protect. And it devastates young people with mental health
problems. Vicky Gunderson's son, Kirk, committed suicide while in
solitary confinement in a Wisconsin jail. Kirk was only 17. It was
just two days after Christmas.

Right now, we have an opportunity to call for change so that there are
no more stories like Kirk's. Tonight, Friday March 22 at 10pm EST,
NBC's Rock Center with Brian Williams is airing a segment on solitary
confinement of youth, exposing millions of Americans to these stories,
and the federal government has recently announced a review of the
practice. This is our moment to make a difference.

Will you help end the barbaric practice of solitary confinement of
young people, so no mother or father, and no child, has to endure this
again? Sign a petition urging Attorney General Eric Holder to ban
solitary confinement of youth in the care of the federal government.

https://www.aclu.org/secure/mothers-plea-stop-solitary-confinement-children?Ms=autofire_acluaction_kirk_130321

Thanks.


-- 
Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org