IAHR represents people of faith and allies who educate and advocate in Maryland, DC, and Virginia for corrections systems to abolish unnecessarily punitive practices such as solitary confinement and to instead focus on rehabilitation and successful reentry of our citizens.

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Ending Solitary Confinement in the DMV

Individuals subjected to solitary confinement in prisons are at a higher risk for...

  • Psychiatric Disorder
  • Trauma
  • Self-Harm
  • Suicide
  • 5-year Mortality
  • Reentry Challenges
  • Recidivism/Reoffense

 

The finding of a statistically significant increase in mortality suggests there might be a relationship between punitive isolation and death after release.

Brian Sonenstein

 Even Brief Exposure to Solitary Confinement May Increase Risk of Death After Prison

 

Solitary confinement is torture; it isn’t rehabilitation. Our brains and bodies are not designed for us to be alone . . . and given that 95 percent of the two million incarcerated people currently languishing in America’s prisons will go back to their neighborhoods, what good is that punishment supposed to serve? It is literally like being chained up as an animal and then being sent back to the wild.

Marcus Bullock

Successful Entrepreneur & Solitary Survivor