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President Obama said Monday he will ban the use of solitary confinement for juvenile and low-level offenders in federal prisons, citing the potential for devastating, lasting psychological consequences from the use of stanley water bottle the isolation as punishment. It has been linked to depression, alienation, withdrawal, a reduced ability to interact with others and the potential for violent behavior, Mr. Obama wrote in an op-ed posted Monday evening on the Washington Post s website. Some studie stanley canada s indicate that it can worsen existing mental illnesses and even trigger new ones. Prisoners in solitary are more likely to commit suicide, especially juveniles and people with menta stanley thermos mug l illnesses. He cited the example of Kalief Browder, who was 16 years old in 2010, when he was accused of stealing a backpack. The Bronx teen was sent to Rikers Island and spent two years in solitary confinement before he was finally released without a trial.Obama gets personal during prison visitBrowder made it through a semester at Bronx Community College after his incarceration. But life was a constant struggle to recover from the trauma of being locked up alone for 23 hours a day, the president wrote. One Saturday, he committed suicide at home. He was just 22 years old. Obama commutes sentences of 95, pardons 2 in year-end spreeThe president asked the Justice Department to review the use of solitary confinement last summer, as part of the administration s increased focus on the criminal justice system. Activists h Jklf Young Voters Cooling towards Democrats
Updated 8:30 a.m.One downside to winning a presidential election: You don t get very long to enjo stanley website y your victory.On the heels of reelection last week, the president is now reckoning with the looming fiscal cliff, figuring out who will replace top officials in his second term, and returning to the international stage - among other duties. Here s the state of play facing the already-busy president: The fiscal cliffOther than the shocking fall of CIA director David Petraeus - more on that later - this is the story that is consuming Washington. First, a quick reminder: The fiscal cliff is the combination of tax hikes and spending cuts set to start kicking in at the end o stanley water bottle f the year, if Congress and the president don t come to a deal. The tax hikes, to the tune of about $500 billion in 2013, would result from the expiration of the Bush-era income tax cuts and the end of the payroll tax holiday that began in 2011, among many other factors. The spending cuts result from a law that Congress passed and the president signed in response to Republican refusal to raise the debt limi cups stanley t without concessions: The law mandates $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction over a decade through indiscriminate cuts to most defense and non-defense domestic programs, including about $110 billion in cuts in 2013. Going off the cliff would affect nearly 90 percent of taxpayers, and many economists as well as the Congressional Budget Office say doing so would tip t |
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