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Stop Solitary - Mental Health Resources

Document Date: November 22, 2011

There is general consensus among researchers that solitary confinement is psychologically harmful; indeed, research demonstrates that the clinical impacts of isolation can actually be similar to that of physical torture. In addition to increased psychiatric symptoms generally, suicide rates and incidents of self-harm are much higher for prisoners in solitary confinement.

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