Current Controversy Videos
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Current Controversy 11.1: Should We Use Supermax Prisons to Control Offenders?
Video: California's Prison Isolation Units: Necessary or Inhumane?
In Sacramento, California lawmakers are delving into a growing national controversy over special security units that are used to isolate thousands of inmates from the regular prison population. Civil rights groups say long-term isolation amounts to torture while state corrections officials say the units are necessary and the conditions are humane.
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Current Controversy 11.2: Is Segregating Prison Populations a Good Policy?
Video: California To End Solitary Confinement For Thousands Of Inmates
More than 500 inmates had been kept in isolation (for alleged gang affiliation) for more than a decade when the lawsuit was filed.