State pen prisoners discuss solitary confinement Thursday, November 21, 2019

KXNet News

Last August, we took you on a tour of the North Dakota State Penitentiary’s revamped solitary confinement unit. A year later, we look at the real changes prisoners are experiencing.

We spoke with a few, who compared the old with the new.

Not that long ago, the old ‘Administrative Segregation Unit’ was the State Pen’s equivalent of solitary confinement. As KX News reported in August, it was a 23-hour-a-day lockdown.

“Single-cell, that’s it. That’s all you got,” Inmate Jerry Homes shared.

“You’re lucky if you got to see a newspaper a month,” added Thomas Mason.

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