It felt like freedom to be chained and hustled down a hallway after weeks of confinement in administrative segregation.
An October 2015 Justice Department study found that, on an average day in 2011-12, approximately 66,000 state and federal prisoners and 20,100 jail inmates were held in administrative segregation or solitary confinement.* Angola prison still has more than a hundred and twenty inmates in the long-term segregation unit that held Albert Woodfox.
Their demands include increased visitation rights with humane treatment of family visitors, installation of a public telephone to communicate with families, and an end to medical negligence, solitary confinement and administrative detention.
Within this is sure to be some torture in the form of solitary confinement or 'special administrative measures' as the jailers call it, likely to help themselves sleep better in their cushy beds at night.
In it's defense, the Attorney General of Canada has contended that administrative segregation is not solitary confinement because the inmate has daily opportunity for meaningful human contact, the length of placement is not indeterminate, and the psychological effects of segregation on inmates is a rigorous and ongoing scientific debate.
These unpublished data came from the proprietary Ingenix Impact National Managed Care Database which is a large administrative claims database containing inpatient confinement, medical claims, pharmacy claims, and member eligibility information.
During my conversation with him, which I hadn't yet followed up on, we talked mostly about "administrative segregation," otherwise known as solitary confinement.
Andrew Weevv" Auernheimer has been placed in "administrative segregation," prison shorthand for solitary confinement for "investigative purposes".
In an interview in 2011, he said one of his goals was to provide ways that inmates could work their way out of solitary confinement, often referred to as administrative segregation or "ad seg".
