{"id":40527,"date":"2013-10-14T00:58:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T00:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pbs_religion_and_ethics_newsweekly13oct2013\/"},"modified":"2013-10-14T00:58:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T00:58:57","slug":"pbs_religion_and_ethics_newsweekly13oct2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40527","title":{"rendered":"PBS &#39; Religion and Ethics Newsweekly&#8211;Solitary Confinement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[LUCKY] SEVERSON: Bobby Dellelo knows what it\u2019s like. He was in solitary for over five years.<\/p>\n<p>BOBBY DELLELO (Former Solitary Prisoner): It was a horror show. You go insane in there. You go crazy. You hear guys saying, \u201cYeah, ho.\u201d\u009d \u201cNo, what?\u201d\u009d The ventilator called his name. The thing that really scared me in there is I was watching my humanity and compassion slipping out of my grasp.<\/p>\n<p>SEVERSON: John Rosser is chairman of the Washington, DC Corrections Officers Union. He thinks, as do many prison guards nationwide, that solitary is getting a bad rap. It\u2019s necessary to preserve the safety of inmates and guards within the prison.<\/p>\n<p>SGT. JOHN ROSSER (DC Corrections Officers Chairman): I do not see how you could run a prison system at all without some type of segregation. And I don\u2019t prefer to use the term&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>SEVERSON: &#8230;solitary?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/10\/11\/october-11-2013-solitary-confinement\/20631\">Read or watch and listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[LUCKY] SEVERSON: Bobby Dellelo knows what it\u2019s like. He was in solitary for over five years. BOBBY DELLELO (Former Solitary Prisoner): It was a horror show. You go insane in there. You go crazy. You hear guys saying, \u201cYeah, ho.\u201d\u009d<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40527\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,175,168,104,114,578,102,129,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-policefire","category-prisonprison-ministry","category-psychology","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}