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ting letters in 2008 four years before hill entered prison new york passed the shu exclusion law limiting solitary for people with serious mental illness under the act people who have been diagnosed with serious mental illness such as schizophrenia major depressive disorder bipolar disorder and or active suicidality can only be placed in the shu for up to 30 days if they have broken a prison rule after those 30 days prison officials must divert them to a residential mental health unit in these units separate from the rest of the prison population people must receive four hours of structured therapeutic programming and mental health treatment five days a week and disciplinary sanctions for acts such as refusing medication and self harm are prohibited the 2008 law also prohibited punishing people in these units with additional isolation except if their conduct poses a significant and unreasonable risk to the safety of incarcerated persons or staff or to the security of the facility but according to a new report by the halt solitary and the mental health alternatives to solitary confinement campaigns isolating people as punishment happens fairly frequently residential mental health units essentially have failed to provide an effective and humane therapeutic environment for a large percentage of its residents charges the report entitled punishment of people with serious mental illness in new york state prisons reviewing data from january 2017 through may 2019 the report concludes that new york s state prison system and its office of mental health have not been following the law s limits on punishment although these units are supposed to be therapeutic they are frequently punitive said jennifer parish who is director of criminal justice advocacy at the urban justice center and a founding member of the mental health alternatives to solitary confinement campaign she noted that she has heard frequent complaints from people who have cycled through the shu and various residential mental health units and many she said felt they were treated worse than people in the shu this is not how this is supposed to work hill agrees he notes that under the halt solitary act if he were in typical solitary confinement i e the shu he would be allowed his personal property including his radio fan calculator lamp hot pot for cooking and prison issued tablet on which he can send e messages to family members but in the residential mental health unit he has none of these to help him pass the hours that he spends alone inside his cell adding hundreds of days in isolation in the 1974 case wolf v mcdonnell the united states supreme court ruled that people in prison have the right to due process under the 14th amendment even for hearings involving internal prison rules violations that same right applies to those in the residential mental health units but according to the report 94 percent of the 1 925 disciplinary hearings held between 2017 and mid 2019 resulted in guilty findings and the vast majority of people were punished with additional time in isolation the report also found that the most frequent sanction was for disobeying a direct order 15 2 percent followed by creating a disturbance 12 percent and interfering with staff 10 percent both charges are vague and can encompass behaviors such as shouting or yelling noted tyrell muhammad a senior advocate at the correctional association of new york a nonprofit that monitors new york s prisons the charges can also encompass actions such as watching staff extract a cellmate despite orders to face the wall or yelling for staff when someone attempts suicide explained muhammad who spent 27 years in new york state prisons including seven in the shu the above are actual incidents that i have experienced and was given disciplinary tickets and a tier iii for he said referring to the highest level infraction for prison rule violations that carries the most severe penalties many would believe that if one is charged with these types of infractions that it is serious to the point where violence was used but that is very rare these infractions are a form of retaliation it is usually because someone witness ed something and these disciplinary tickets are a way of intimidation he and other advocates have noted that staff make the decision on what actions constitute creating a disturbance or interfering with staff in contrast the report found that fewer than 4 percent of people in residential mental health units were charged with assault on staff and fewer than 1 percent were charged with assault on another incarcerated person despite the lack of severity of the charges hundreds have been punished with additional isolation according to the report of the 399 people in a residential mental health unit during that time 99 percent were punished with solitary confinement eight five percent were sentenced to six months or more of additional isolation time their total amount of time in isolation came out to more than 823 years with an average of 753 days or more than two years for each person in addition to the punitive nature of being confined to their cells for 20 to 24 hours each day most people in these units are handcuffed when they are escorted to therapy and counseling and once at their destination shackled to the floor with leg irons if they remain free of misbehavior reports or infractions known as negative informational reports for 120 days they are allowed to leave their cells without handcuffs and attend programs without being shackled they are also moved to a cell with a television mounted on the wall allowing them to watch tv to break up the monotony but hill says staff members at the residential mental health unit frequently write negative informational reports which do not require a hearing or allow an incarcerated person to defend themselves against allegations of negative behavior instead they must begin their 120 days again the report also charges that people in these units who are primarily black and latinx people with serious mental health needs have been punished at much higher rates than others in the prison system and frequently because of behavior caused by their underlying mental health conditions over 80 percent in the residential mental health units were black and or latinx black and latinx people make up 72 percent of those incarcerated in new york state prisons and 37 percent in the state at large in contrast white people such as hill comprised 14 5 percent of people in residential mental health units compared to 24 percent in all new york prisons and nearly 62 percent of the state at large they also made up nearly 26 percent of people in the intermediate care program the nonpunitive mental health unit or as the report notes 77 percent higher than white people in the more punitive residential mental health units jack beck the report s author and a member of the halt solitary campaign noted that people sent to the nonpunitive intermediate care program and to the residential mental health unit have the same serious mental health classifications there s tremendous racial bias in the disciplinary system and in the whole department of corrections he said punitive residential reentry units in 2021 13 years after the passage of the shu exclusion act new york s legislature passed the halt solitary confinement act limiting solitary confinement to no more than 15 consecutive days or 20 days within a 60 day time period the law went into effect on march 31 2022 it required the creation of residential reentry units where people sentenced to more than 15 days in shu will be transferred on day 16 according to the department of corrections and community services these units too are meant to be therapeutic and trauma informed and aim to address individual treatment rehabilitation needs and underlying causes of problematic behavior people who have serious mental illnesses are not placed in shu at all and like hill are sent directly to a residential mental health unit where they still spend at least 20 hours each day alone in their cells now parish beck and other advocates are concerned that these new residential reentry units will replicate the problem of alternatives that are still punitive rather than therapeutic this is a cautionary message beck said of the report and its findings if you re going to have people in these treatment units but you re going to constantly discipline them it doesn t work it doesn t change behavior it s totally ineffective the department of corrections and community supervision did not respond to truthout s queries about these units or its policy regarding suicidal ideation the report concludes that the ongoing punitive approach to imprisoned people with mental health needs even in units designated for these more vulnerable populations indicate that prison is not an appropriate environment for people with mental health needs its first recommendation exhorts the state to stop incarcerating people with mental health needs instead it urges legislators and policy makers to expand and enhance community based mental health care diversion programs crisis response and alternatives to incarceration source https truthout org articles mental health units in prison are solitary by another name activists say author blkpride posted on june 21 2022 june 21 2022 categories prison prison industrial complex pic prison slavery tags community supervision department of corrections doc long term solitary confinement mental health prison residential mental health unit residential re entry units solitary confinement leave a comment on mental health units in prison are solitary confinement by another name activists say review a revolutionary for our time the walter rodney story by leo zeilig the new york times malaika h kambon an illustrated take on leo zeilig s new biography of the 1960s 70s revolutionary read on www nytimes com 2022 04 24 books review a revolutionary for our time the walter rodney story leo zeilig html view original post author blkpride posted on june 7 2022 categories uncategorized leave a comment on review a revolutionary for our time the walter rodney story by leo zeilig the new york times sundiata acoli is home comrades on may 25th sundiata acoli walked out of prison into the arms of his family and loved ones we knew this day was coming but wanted to ensure it was official and that we saw it with our own eyes as you can imagine after 49 years sundiata is finally able to spend time with his family and we want to make sure we respect these precious moments to that end we will be asking our supporters to hold off on requesting meetings with him until he can get settled and his family can love up on him by themselves we ll announce an official homecoming celebration in the coming weeks in prison there s no 401k no savings plan and no pension it s up to all of us to provide that we ask for your generous support to allow sundiata to enjoy his years of freedom with the financial stability he deserves all donations received will go to sundiata s family to care for him donate author blkpride posted on may 26 2022 may 26 2022 categories uncategorized tags black panther party bpp black panther party bpp black liberation army bla political prisoners pp prisoners of war pow s revolutionary scholar sundiata acoli leave a comment on sundiata acoli is home when huey newton inspired the polynesian panthers of new zealand who stood up to racism image via stuff co huey percy newton was a revolutionary african american political activist who did his best to correct what was described as the ills of the american society at the time and fought for the end of the oppression of people of color in the country he and fellow student bobby seale formed the black panther party for self defense in 1966 to fight police brutality against the black community in oakland the party took on a militant stance coupled with the burgeoning pride associated with the black power movement the panther party became infamous for brandishing guns challenging the authority of police officers and embracing violence as a necessary by product of revolution the panthers were not just about being menacing however as the group introduced a series of goals such as fighting for better housing jobs and education for african americans these plans were laid out in the panther party s ten point program six young new zealand born pacific islanders were inspired by the works of newton and his party and in 1971 they created the polynesian panther party ppp the ppp was a revolutionary social justice movement formed to fight racial inequalities carried out against indigenous māori and pacific islanders in auckland and new zealand as a whole pacific islanders is a term used to describe the indigenous peoples of oceania melanesia micronesia and polynesia during the 1950s when new zealand s economy was not in good shape and needed workers thousands of pacific islanders arrived over time the color of the population changed in inner city auckland the city was no longer all white and this bothered people and authorities soon pacific islanders faced issues such as racial profiling redlining disproportionate incarceration and segregation in the sports world according to this report six young maori and pacific islander men namely fred schmidt nooroa teavae paul dapp vaughan sanft eddie williams and will ilolahia took notice of what was happening and founded the ppp on june 16 1971 inspired by the american black panthers the group was specifically inspired by the book seize the time by bobby seale of the american black panther movement according to stuff the book s central philosophy guided the ppp s three point platform peaceful resistance pacific empowerment identity work and educating new zealand about systemic racism initially it was the literature of the black panther party in america that we got attracted to the work they were doing in america and when we read the books deeper we found out that the problems they were complaining about were the exact problems that we were seeing in new zealand so we decided to do something constructive and formed the polynesian panther party will ilolahia who was the party chairman said with their black uniform and berets adopted from their peers in the united states they seemed to be a threat to the white middle class in new zealand however their movement centered on community work as stated by stuff co the ppp set up its headquarters in ponsonby a suburb of auckland and started to implement its program through community organizing and direct action what was it all about being a polynesian panther standing up on behalf of our people being good to your neighbour don t take no s and stop this racism ilolahia was quoted by stuff indeed acts of community care by newton and his panthers in the u s served as an inspiration to the polynesian panthers movement to serve the polynesian community through grassroots community...