Law enforcement officials push back on new segregated confinement law
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Apr 09, 2021, 1:38pm EDT
There is growing pushback
from law enforcement officials about a new law that just passed that restricts
the amount of time an inmate can spend in segregated confinement.
Law enforcement
officials are now looking to amend the HALT Solitary Confinement Act, also
known as The Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement Act.
The law limits the amount of
time an incarcerated person can spend in segregated confinement to just 15
days.
The law also keeps certain
vulnerable populations away from segregated confinement such as the young,