The isolation units at California's Pelican Bay prison hold more than 1,200 inmates. They live in small, windowless cells, often for years, with... At Pelican Bay Prison, a Life in Solitary At Pelican ...

Gary Harkins also spent decades inside an isolation unit -- as a correctional officer at the Oregon State Penitentiary. He says solitary... Working the Isolation Unit: A Prison Officer's Tale For 25 ...

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Hospital is in the midst of a construction project to build an isolation unit designed to treat patients with Ebola and other highly infectious diseases, according to a ...

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Even well-established infection control policies are often abandoned — or at least deviated from — when put into practice ...