Please SUPPORT Independent Media, Vote with your $. Takes a lot of work to make these videos. https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=ZVN55T42MWV42 Summary of the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term (HALT) Solitary Confinement Act, A. 8588A / S. 6466A The 23rd Day of every month the groups gather at 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd/7th Ave in Harlem bringing awareness to the devastating effects solitary confinement does to the youth and adults. HALT’s Key Mechanisms for Challenging Isolated Confinement:  Creates More Humane & Effective Alternatives to Isolated Confinement: Any person separated from general population for more than 15 consecutive days must be in a separate secure residential rehabilitation unit (RRU) – a rehabilitative & therapeutic unit providing programs, therapy, and support to address underlying needs and causes of behavior, with 6 hours per day of out-of-cell programming plus one hour of out-of-cell recreation.  Ends Long-Term Isolated Confinement: No person may be held in isolated confinement more than 15 consecutive days nor 20 days total in any 60 day period. At these limits, a person must be released or diverted to the alternative RRU with more out-of-cell time, programs, and therapy.  Restricts Criteria for Placement in Isolated Confinement or RRUs: A person can only be placed in segregated confinement for more than 3 days and up to 15 days, or be placed in an RRU, if the person is found to have engaged in more serious acts of physical injury, forced sexual acts, extortion, coercion, inciting serious disturbance, procuring deadly weapons or dangerous contraband, or escape.  Bans Special Populations from Isolated Confinement: The department can never place in isolated confinement any person: 21 years or younger; 55 years or older; With a physical, mental, or medical disability; Who is pregnant; Who is a new mother; or Who is or is perceived to be LGBTI. The Incarcerated Nation Corp. Consists of organizations and individuals who are directly impacted by incarceration and live with the collateral consequences of mass incarceration we are a collective of those previously incarcerated creating and supporting projects that provide services to those incarcerated, previously incarcerated & their family members We also include concerned community members, lawyers, and individuals in the human rights, health, and faith communities throughout the Nation. We believe that solitary confinement poses serious risks for the mental health of all people held in such conditions, including the large number of people with a pre-existing mental health conditions still in solitary. In this testimony, we will outline our opposition to the proposed amendments to the Jail Minimum Standards that govern the use of punitive segregation (solitary confinement), visits, and packages. These changes will have a negative effect on people incarcerated in NYC jails, their families, and friends. They will have a disproportionate impact on Black and Latino families and communities, and poor people who cannot afford bail. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4kF81TM1ZQ

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