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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
This week on WINGS:
Solitary confinement is a discredited method that has been resurrected in US prisons with a vengeance. Although used casually and arbitrarily, long-term isolated confinement – defined by the UN as more than 15 days – has dire effects on mental health and rehabilitation.
Featured speakers/guests:
Panelists: Serena Liguori, Herstory Writers Workshop Program and Advocacy Director, who is instrumental in designing story-based strategies for justice reform; Megan Crowe-Rothstein, Director of Social Work at the Urban Justice Center Mental Health Project and a member of the Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement (CAIC); Claire de Roche, activist and member of CAIC and the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT); and Amol Sinha, Suffolk Chapter Director of the NYCLU. Host: Silvia Heredia of Herstory Writers Workshop.
Credits:
Excerpted from the podcast Voices from the Box: A Call to End the Torture of Isolated Confinement, produced by Voices for Justice, and found online at http://www.storiesforjustice.org/voices-from-the-box-a-call-to-end-the-torture-of-isolated-confinement/ Editing and narration for WINGS by Kellia Ramares-Watson; WINGS series producer, Frieda Werden.
