Solitary Confinement
An update of the 'brutal' Mental Health Act
26 Nov 2024
The Prime Minister has apologised for decades of child abuse in care, but the Mental Health Act allows some of the same kind of treatment to be dished out to the mentally unwell.
Inside New Zealand's newest seclusion rooms
3 Dec 2018
A brand new psychiatric facility in South Auckland includes two rooms specifically designed to keep patients in solitary confinement, despite strong criticism it's an outdated form of treatment that… Video, Audio
The growing outrage in the US over solitary confinement
22 Mar 2016
Between 80 thousand and 100 thousand prisoners across America are in solitary confinement at on any given day. Last month a former Black Panther, Albert Woodfox walked out of a jail in Louisiana on… Audio
