Save California Kids from Solitary Confinement

Soaring No More

(photo by Joseph Siroker ) 

Please support SB 1363, a bill that would limit the harmful practice of solitary confinement, which is being used against kids in California’s juvenile facilities. Currently, kids are locked up in isolation, denied education and basic programming. The international community has condemned the use of solitary confinement against youth. Research has shown the traumatic toll and mental health breakdown caused by isolation in healthy adults. Children who are still in their development stages are at an even greater risk of permanent damage. It is unacceptable that our state allows this to happen. Sign the petition at this link, please!  Urge the Senate Public Safety Committee to end the solitary confinement of kids.

WHERE DOES THE CRUELTY END?

Please sign the petition to SAVE THE CHILDREN http://goo.gl/P2l9W 

Open thy mouth for the voiceless in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction [capital punishment].  Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy [victims of racism, poverty, unjust prosecution, excessive sentencing, three-strikes laws, imprisonment for offenses caused by mental illness, and all unrighteousness] ~Proverbs31:8-9. GET UP, STAND UP FOR LOVE. See an excerpt from the petition below:

Solitary confinement is torture. Yet, this harmful practice runs rampant in California’s state and local facilities.
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Research has shown the traumatic toll and mental health impacts of isolation in healthy adults. Children who are still in their development stages are at an even greater risk of permanent damage. When the state takes custody of our children, parents expect them to get the education and programming they need to lead healthy lives. Instead, their children are isolated and damaged.

Is this what we want for our children? If your child attempted suicide, would you lock her up alone in a cell to “fix” the problem? Our children deserve better. The state has a duty to protect our children in its custody from harmful practices that endanger their lives. SB 1363 (Yee) will limit the use of solitary confinement in juvenile facilities and provide protective guidelines on how and when it is used. Stand with us and urge the Senate Public Safety Committee members to vote “YES” on SB 1363.

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Mary Neal, Child Advocate, director of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill at http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/aimi Four links are on this page, not counting the ad below. Unfortunately, messages to make the justice system in America more just and compassionate are cyberstalked. Pray for the cruelty and injustice to end. Pray for officials to repent and be righteous. Pray for justice for ALL.

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