Psychiatric patients again kept in solitary confinement more often and for longer
1 month, 1 week ago

Psychiatric patients again kept in solitary confinement more often and for longer

NL Times  

Despite promises to abolish solitary confinement in mental healthcare by 2020, there were nearly 8,800 confinements, usually in isolation cells, last year. The amount of time psychiatric patients spent in isolation also increased, rising by 25 percent, NOS reports based on figures from the Health and Youth Care Inspectorate. In June 2016, 15 large Dutch mental healthcare institutions signed the Dolhuys Manifesto agreeing to abolish solitary confinement by 2020. We lock up seriously ill people and harm them in the process.” The Dutch GGZ, the trade association of mental healthcare institutions, questioned the Inspectorate’s figures.

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