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Watchdog once again calls for an end to double-bunking inmates in solitary confinement cells

ace, we can all agree on that.

And it's a very difficult place to manage, given that many inmates don't want to be there and have histories of violence, deception and mental illnesses.

But inmates sent there shouldn't end up dead, unless they're sentenced to life in prison or given the death penalty for especially heinous murders.

That – death – has been the result for at least three inmates in recent years who were placed in the same cell with another prisoner in solitary confinement cells.

The term used these days for solitary by the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services is "restricti...

 

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