Solitary Confinement Of Juvenile Offenders: Article Analysis

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In the article titled "Solitary Confinement of Juvenile Offenders", the Juvenile Justice Reform Committee(JJRC) claims that "The potential psychiatric consequences of prolonged solitary confinement are well recognized and include depression, anxiety and psychosis." JJRC says that most suicides in juvenile correctional facilities occur when individuals are isolated or in solitary confinement. In the US, children are put into solitary confinement for unnecessary reasons sometimes, interestingly, The United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty resolution was approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in December 1990, and was supported by the US, which is crazy because the United Sates Juvenile Justice