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Revised JDAI Standards Call for End to Unnecessary Solitary Confinement

By Gary Gately | June 3, 2014

Amid growing outcry over solitary confinement of juveniles, the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation is calling for an end to the practice except as a short-term response to behavior that threatens a youth or others.