You're right. From a clinical point of view, sometimes we need to be left alone, because there is what we call therapeutic heat, there is too much intervention; it's well documented in the research, and sometimes they need to be left alone. But it needs to be part of a plan, meaning that this is what the inmate with mental health issues will try to do before he asks to be voluntarily placed in his own cell with his stuff. If he doesn't succeed in putting all those strategies in place, he will be able to go into his cell on a voluntary basis and they will close the door and he will be monitored for a certain period of time. After that, there will be a meeting with the mental health team to find out if this time away was beneficial, is part of the plan, and next time do we need to do that again.
But that's not what we call segregation in terms of the legal status of segregation. It's a clinical treatment when we do that, and it's voluntary. As long as it's voluntary and it's part of a plan and it's part of something we're going to try, and after that there is an assessment, we are in treatment here. So we need that. We need to have this period, this time out for many people with mental health issues. Yes, you're right. But it's not segregation. They're not losing all their personal belongings. They're not put in a range with other inmates who might be very disturbing, who are there because they did something against the internal rules. They're not very happy with the system, so they're not calm. So that might be very disturbing for someone with mental health issues.