Self-Isolation May Feel Like Jail: It’s Nothing Compared to Youth Prison
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In this article, published in Teen Vogue, Carvente-Martinez reflects on his experience of being in solitary confinement in a youth prison and how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting on the experiences of isolation of youth in prisons. He also writes about his transition to the outside, the lingering effects of solitary confinement in his life, and his work as an activist fighting against youth imprisonment.
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Youth First Initiative and Healing Ninjas, Inc., New York, NY, USA
Hernán Carvente-Martinez
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Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
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Laura S. Abrams
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Carvente-Martinez, H. (2021). Self-Isolation May Feel Like Jail: It’s Nothing Compared to Youth Prison. In: Cox, A., Abrams, L.S. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Youth Imprisonment. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68759-5_2
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