From Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Parents and teachers call it “time out,” and now Virginia’s prisons are trying the same approach when inmates’ attitudes and behavior suggest trouble is coming.
The Department of Corrections is opening what it’s calling “Cool Down” rooms, meant to give inmates space and up to four hours by themselves if they are having problems with another inmate or if they need time alone amid emotional distress, such as when learning of a death in the family.
The pilot program has started at nine prisons — Bland, Keen Mountain, Pocahontas, Red Onion, St. Brides, Wallens Ridge, Green Rock, Augusta and River North — and the plan is to phase in Cool Down spaces in four to five sites at a time in the months ahead. The department expects to have Cool Down rooms in all its facilities by the spring. Continue reading >>>
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