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Seclusion Cells
6:52 am
Mon March 4, 2013

Lawmakers Examine Use Of School Seclusion Cells

Credit Photo by Chris Lehman. / Northwest News Networ
The two seclusion rooms at Pioneer School's K-6 campus in Portland are 7 feet by 7 feet.

When kids get severely out of control in class, some schools place the students in a "seclusion cell." It's sort of a "time-out" room where kids can calm down without posing a risk to themselves or others. A measure moving through the Oregon legislature would ban the use of the starkest version of these cells. But some mental health advocates say the bill doesn't go far enough. Salem Correspondent Chris Lehman reports.

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