FILE – In this Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, file photo, then-Sacramento Kings forward Caron Butler poses for a picture at the Kings’ media day in Sacramento, Calif. Former UConn and NBA star Butler will be holding a news conference Monday, June 7, 2021, to ask Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont to sign a bill strictly limiting the use of solitary confinement. The bill passed the legislature early Sunday.
Former UConn and NBA star Caron Butler speaks at a news conference at the Connecticut State Capitol to urge Gov. Ned Lamont to sign legislation that passed which strictly limits the use of solitary confinement and other forms of inmate isolation in prisons, Monday, June 7, 2021 in Hartford, Conn.
Andrea Butler, right, pins buttons to her husband, former UConn and NBA star Caron Butler’s jacket before he speaks at a news conference at the Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford, Conn. Butler was present to urge Gov. Ned Lamont to sign legislation that passed which strictly limits the use of solitary confinement and other forms of inmate isolation in prisons, Monday, June 7, 2021
Former UConn and NBA star Caron Butler, listens as poet and advocate Reginald Dwayne Betts speaks at a news conference at the Connecticut State Capitol to urge Gov. Ned Lamont to sign legislation that passed that strictly limits the use of solitary confinement and other forms of inmate isolation in prisons, Monday, June 7, 2021 in Hartford, Conn.
Former UConn and NBA star Caron Butler speaks at a news conference at the Connecticut State Capitol to urge Gov. Ned Lamont to sign legislation that passed which strictly limits the use of solitary confinement and other forms of inmate isolation in prisons, Monday, June 7, 2021 in Hartford, Conn.
Caron Butler can easily point to the lowest moment in his life — the days he spent as a teenager locked in a solitary confinement cell inside a juvenile prison.
The former UConn star and NBA player went to Connecticut’s state Capitol on Monday to ask Gov. Ned Lamont to sign legislation that would strictly limit the use of solitary confinement and other forms of isolation in prisons.
The bill, which requires almost all inmates be allowed at least 6 1/2 hours out of their cells and also limits the use of certain restraints, received final legislative approval early Sunday. It comes as the state is closing its maximum-security Northern Correctional Institution, which was designed specifically to keep prisoners in isolation.
Butler has been open about his struggles as a youth in Racine, Wisconsin. He dealt drugs and was arrested more than a dozen times before spending more than a year in prison on drug possession and firearms charges.
He was 15 when he got into a fight in prison and was thrown into solitary, spending 23 hours a day isolated in a small cell for two weeks. He had no contact with anyone. He said none of the violence or other trauma in his young life prepared him for the despair of that situation.
“Being in those four walls and those four corners, it does something to you,” Butler said in an interview with The Associated Press. “Mentally and spiritually, it takes away a lot. It dehumanizes you.”
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