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Kern County: isolation on suicide watch
Hundreds placed each year in single cells 24 hours a day with no treatment and a yoga mat; a county official quoted calling it "punishment and humiliation"; one hanging inside a watch cell
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What the record says
Worldwide register by region (Batch 2) · Batch 10
- Jurisdiction / date
- Kern County, 2010s
- Channel
- 6
- Mechanism
- Jail "suicide watch" isolation
- What is documented
- Hundreds placed each year in single cells 24 hours a day with no treatment and a yoga mat; a county official quoted calling it "punishment and humiliation"; one hanging inside a watch cell
- Finding or status
- Investigative (ProPublica / Prison Legal News, 2019)
- Limits
- Harm, not retaliation; shows the instrument available for misuse
- Label
- VERIFIED (reporting)
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Reference and provenance
2019-CA-KERN-SUICIDE-WATCH