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By SAMARA FOX, ELLEN GALLAGHER, and J. WESLEY BOYD
AUGUST 7, 2020
After months of social distancing, many of us are feeling its effects. Experts have delineated the mental and physical health impactsof isolation caused by the pandemic, and those who have experienced home quarantine have been particularly vulnerable to loneliness and depression.
Imagine though, if quarantine meant you were confined to a single bare room and deprived of the things that could keep you happy and sane — video chats with loved ones, digital entertainment, a sense of purpose through work, and of course, occasional human contact.
Yet that has been the experience of the pandemic for many in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention, where isolation in a single cell is being used as a substitute for medical quarantine. Attorneys and other advocates have begun reporting ICE’s inappropriate use of solitary confinement to media outlets and the court system.
Now that Covid-19 has spread through detention centers across the country, ICE has made it clear that it views solitary confinement as an appropriate public health response to the pandemic.
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AUGUST 7, 2020
After months of social distancing, many of us are feeling its effects. Experts have delineated the mental and physical health impactsof isolation caused by the pandemic, and those who have experienced home quarantine have been particularly vulnerable to loneliness and depression.
Imagine though, if quarantine meant you were confined to a single bare room and deprived of the things that could keep you happy and sane — video chats with loved ones, digital entertainment, a sense of purpose through work, and of course, occasional human contact.
Yet that has been the experience of the pandemic for many in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention, where isolation in a single cell is being used as a substitute for medical quarantine. Attorneys and other advocates have begun reporting ICE’s inappropriate use of solitary confinement to media outlets and the court system.
Now that Covid-19 has spread through detention centers across the country, ICE has made it clear that it views solitary confinement as an appropriate public health response to the pandemic.
https://www.statnews.com/2020/08/07/...witter_organic