{"id":618664,"date":"2024-04-28T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-battle-to-halt-endless-solitary-confinement\/"},"modified":"2024-04-28T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T19:00:00","slug":"watch-a-battle-to-halt-endless-solitary-confinement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-battle-to-halt-endless-solitary-confinement\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A Battle to Halt Endless Solitary Confinement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40b1e729485\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40b1e729485\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-battle-to-halt-endless-solitary-confinement\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Battle_to_Halt_Endless_Solitary_Confinement%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online A Battle to Halt Endless Solitary Confinement&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-battle-to-halt-endless-solitary-confinement\/#%E2%80%9CA_Battle_to_Halt_Endless_Solitary_Confinement%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Battle to Halt Endless Solitary Confinement&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Battle_to_Halt_Endless_Solitary_Confinement%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online A Battle to Halt Endless Solitary Confinement&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Battle_to_Halt_Endless_Solitary_Confinement%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Battle to Halt Endless Solitary Confinement&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Solitary confinement, theoretically used only when a prisoner is at high risk of harm to or from others, has long been regarded as a severe punitive measure best <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lied in small doses. The United Nations\u2019 \u201cMandela Rules\u201d recommend inmates be placed in such conditions for no more than 15 days, to avoid significant damage to physical or psychological health. Yet \u201cThe Strike\u201d spotlights one U.S. correctional facility where until recently convicts were held in solitary for decades on end. JoeBill Munoz and Lucas Guilkey\u2019s documentary, premiering at Hot Docs, provides a polished, informative overview of protests \u2014 both in and outside the prison \u2014 that eventually succeeded in changing abusive policies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    When California opened the Pelican Bay State Prison in 1989, it was considered a model of its \u201csupermax\u201d type, designed as a maximum security institution for \u201cthe worst of the worst.\u201d At the time, the \u201cWar on Drugs\u201d (then \u201cthree-strikes\u201d laws) had greatly increased prison populations, resulting in overcrowding which escalated tensions between inmate factions. Pelican Bay was conceived to alleviate those problems by isolating the most troublesome wards of the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    This debut feature doesn\u2019t touch on some of the site\u2019s early controversies \u2014 violence by guards led to a \u201c60 Minutes\u201d expos\u00e9 in 1993 \u2014 focusing exclusively on the issue of longterm solitary. Officials saw gang affiliation as the major cause for conflict between prisoners, devising methods for identifying it that were sometimes awfully loose. Simple interest in something political (like the Black Panthers) or cultural (Chicano history) could brand an inmate as a likely gang member.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    This approach then provided a blanket excuse to place those individuals in \u201cthe SHU\u201d (Security Housing Unit) \u2026 and leave them there. A half-dozen or so Pelican Bay veterans interviewed here include ones who remained in solitary for 10, 20, even 30-plus years. They describe such complete isolation as \u201ca very intense mental battle.\u201d One shares, \u201cI had resigned myself to death in a windowless concrete box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    We seldom learn anything about their backgrounds, crimes, any actual gang affiliation or whether they had histories of altercations while in custody. At times those omissions makes \u201cThe Strike\u201d\u2019s advocacy tenor seem one-sided to the point of naivet\u00e9, particularly at its rather mawkish inspirational close. But there is little doubt that Pelican\u2019s use of SHU was not only inhumane, but seemed to prevent some inmates ever being considered for transfer back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> population, let alone parole. It was a classic \u201clock \u2018em up and throw away the key\u201d situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In July 2011, there was a widespread first hunger strike to demand better conditions. Some requests were shamefully basic, including the right to have a wall calendar, a warm winter cap, one family photo and one phone call per year. (The facility\u2019s remote rural location, just below the Oregon border, makes in-person visits rare.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    When that effort seemed to generate little real change, there was a second strike in 2013 \u2014 smaller in number, but more effective in gaining attention from outside reformists, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>, and politicians. In the end, however, it was a lawsuit rather than legislators that forced change, leading some 4,000 inmates to be released from solitary. For some, that ultimately led to parole and a new start in society.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Brief, impressionistic reenactments attempt to convey something of this extreme prison life. But limited access and the film\u2019s brisk, even slick tenor perversely make the grueling nature of solitary confinement (which some have considered a form of torture) a reality \u201cThe Strike\u201d doesn\u2019t render especially vivid. A few prior documentaries on the subject, like Nina Rosenblum\u2019s 1990 \u201cThrough the Wire,\u201d or dramatic depictions like Steve McQueen\u2019s \u201cHunger,\u201d have managed that better.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But Munoz and Guilkey\u2019s emphasis is more on bucking the system, a process driven by the combined efforts of inmates, activists (including prisoners\u2019 relatives), investigative journalists, and select politicians. We also hear from a number of current or former prison officials, and see videotape of an attempted negotiation session during one hunger strike.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The U.S. prison industry continues to boom, and many citizens see incarceration as a deserved dead end for \u201cbad people,\u201d never mind abstraction notions of human rights and rehabilitation. \u201cThe Strike\u201d reminds that even within criminal justice, some degree of mercy remains relevant. Particularly outside the realm of lifers and death row, the goal shouldn\u2019t be to crush individuals\u2019 spirit until they can\u2019t possibly re-enter civilian life. This well-crafted documentary makes a strong case for human contact as essential to human existence, even (or especially) among the incarcerated. Closing on-screen text, however, notes that about 120,000 American convicts are still currently estimated as being held in solitary confinement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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