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| Subject: No kid should be in solitary confinement Tue Apr 16, 2013 4:59 pm | |
| The 17-year-old drew his suicide note in strips of wet toilet paper on the floor of his jail cell -- a concrete box where he was being held in isolation.
"I'm sorry 1 4 3 fam," Kirk Gunderson wrote.
Code for "I love you, family."
It's impossible to know what, exactly, pushed Kirk to tie a prison blanket to a smoke detector grate and hang himself on December 27, 2005. But Vicky Gunderson -- who remembers her son for his bright laugh and caring temperament and who described his suicide note and cell to me -- believes Kirk lost hope and the will to live when he was transferred from a regular cell at a county jail in Wisconsin into solitary confinement.
More: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/15/opinion/sutter-solitary-confinement/index.html |
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