“After all these years of spending essentially my entire incarceration housed in Washington state in IMU (intensive management unit), the result of that is you lose hope,” Jarnagin said. “And this situation here creates despair, and that leads to anger and frustration. There’s nothing productive or positive IMU does.”
There are currently no state restrictions on the use of solitary confinement for adults, which is a large part of what HB 1756 hopes to address. Sponsored by state Rep. Strom Peterson, D-Edmonds, the bill also seeks to define the conditions of solitary confinement, which has many different names, including administrative segregation, maximum custody and IMU.
Peterson said he decided to
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