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CINCINNATI — Imagine a world without cell phones. Or books, computers, television, radio, even human interaction.
That’s the world of solitary confinement, and that’s a world some folks are working to end for juveniles.
Kim Tandy, executive director of Children’s Law Center, Inc., wants that practice to stop – and the CLC has worked out a way to demonstrate just how bad those solitary cells can be.
Turner Construction made a replica of a solitary confinement cell. The cell was on display at the Ohio State Bar Association Convention, held at Duke Energy Center this week.
“The juvenile justice committee is very interested in this,” Tandy said. “(Solitary confinement is) dangerous. It makes kids worse. It causes them to lash out and be violent.”
WCPO Insiders can learn more about the efforts to stop solitary confinement used in juvenile detention.