Several bills aimed at studying and further restricting the use of solitary confinement in New Hampshire prisons met stiff skepticism Thursday from members of the House criminal justice committee.
Representatives referenced California’s decision last fall to overhaul its system of solitary confinement as part of a landmark legal settlement. Granite State reps had no reason to believe the type of atrocities alleged out west are happening in New Hampshire, but they’d like to make sure.
The bill would establish a committee to study the practice, but would also limit the time that inmates could be held in isolation to six weeks, and would prohibit the department from using the confinement of prisoners with serious mental illnesses.
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