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NEW YORK (AP) — Six weeks after her arrival at Rikers Island, an argument over who should clean a jailhouse shower sent Candie Hailey to solitary confinement — known as "the bing." 
  
 It was the first time, but it would not be the last. 
  
 A month later, records show, she cursed and spit at a guard and resisted when she was put in a hold. Ninety-five days in the bing. She later got 70 days for cursing at an officer, splashing the guard with toilet water and refusing to stop. Among other infractions: fighting (40 days), disrespect of staff (30 days) and blocking her cell window (15 days). 
  
 Of her first 29 months in jail, Hailey served about 27 alone in a 6-by-10-foot cell, with a bed, a toilet and a few books to pass the time. When she did go outside, it was just for one hour in 24. And she had yet to be tried for any crime, let alone convicted. 
  
 At least eight times during her more than three-year incarceration, she would be taken to the hospital after suicide attempts in solitary that included trying to swallow hair remover product, pills and the chemicals inside an instant ice pack, banging her head on a wall and trying to electrocute herself by putting a phone cord in her cell's toilet. 
  
 Hailey could not abide solitary confinement. But that was the only place her jailers felt they could put her. 
  
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 Candie Hailey's wretched stay at Rikers — detailed in official documents and hours of interviews — is a case study in solitary confinement and its consequences. 
  
 Many criminal justice experts say officials too often rely on solitary to punish inmates, disregarding the effect on troubled men and women like Hailey. Research has shown that solitary can be psychologically distressing, especially for prisoners who go into it with preexisting mental illnesses. 
  
 Even though long-term use of isolation is increasingly being challenged — in statehouses, the courts and even by President Barack Obama, who last month banned its use for juveniles as punishment for low-level infractions in federal prisons — it's still the most common correctional tool nationwide used to keep order. 
  
 Hailey, who was diagnosed at Rikers with a borderline character disorder, mood disorder and anti-social personality disorder, quickly adopted a perverse survival strategy: Act out and you get out, if only temporarily for treatment. 
  
 "I would take the feces and I put it all over me," she recalls. "I said, 'If you're gonna treat me like a dog, I'm gonna act like one.'" 
  
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 Hailey believed she was treated unfairly from the moment of her arrival at Rikers' 800-bed, all-women's Rose M. Singer Center — Rosie's, as it's called. 
  
 Her arrest on attempted murder charges following a 2012 fight with three other women was widely publicized, with at least one city tabloid seizing on the fact that one of the women's 4-month-old baby girl was left with a skull fracture and a deep cut above her eye. Guards and fellow inmates gave her a scurrilous nickname: "baby killer." 
  
 When Hailey was examined after the eight suicide attempts, psychiatrists who saw her came to the same conclusion: She was manipulative, a malingerer, intentionally hurting herself to escape solitary. The cause of this behavior, they said, was her underlying personality disorder. 
  
 "I'm being treated as a criminal, but I am the victim," she told a mental health worker. 
  
 But Hailey wasn't a candidate for units for the most seriously mentally ill because she didn't have a diagnosis of severe depression, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. So, more often than not, after her suicide attempts she was placed on suicide watch and sent back to the bing. The only mental health care she received in solitary consisted of brief consultations at her cell's door. 
  
 "I can't endure this abuse evermore," she wrote in a handwritten suicide note to her father in the summer of 2014. "The truth will come to light, while death shall set me free." 
  
 Hailey's monthlong trial last May ended with a verdict of not guilty. Hailey was free to return to the Bronx. 
  
 Jail officials wouldn't discuss Hailey's case specifically. But city Corrections Department spokeswoman Eve Kessler said officials have reduced the number of inmates serving their time in solitary by about two-thirds in the past two years, noting that "everyone in our custody deserves to be treated safely and humanely." 
  
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 In more than three years Hailey spent in jail, she spent 2 1/3 years in solitary. And in the nine months since she was freed, she has struggled to break free from the trauma of her confinement. 
  
 "Honestly I think I'd be better off in jail," the now-32-year-old Hailey said after yet another failed trip to court to regain custody of her two children. "It's like a nightmare, like everyone's out there trying to get me." 
  
 She had reunited with her younger sisters and father and promptly dissociated from them; struggled to regain her welfare benefits and strove to complete a still-unresolved divorce. 
  
 Housing has been a continuing struggle. She cycled out of two different city shelters, got locked out of a $100-per-week room in the Bronx. By December, she had resorted to riding subway trains through the night. Twice since her release, she's tried to kill herself. And for months she stopped attending weekly counseling sessions 
  
 Just before the end of the year, Hailey gained placement in another apartment for people with mental health problems and agreed to return to counseling. But she was still fearful her cycle of problems would never end. 
  
 "I would say I've been through hell and back," she said. "My soul died but my body is alive." ||||| FILE - In this July 23, 2015 file photo, Candie Hailey, center, speaks during a monthly rally calling for the end of solitary confinement in New York. Hailey, who spent more than three years on Rikers... (Associated Press) 
  
 NEW YORK (AP) — A judge brokered a last-minute deal on Monday to dismiss criminal charges against a woman for jailhouse confrontations with guards during the three years she spent awaiting trial on Rikers Island, much of it in solitary confinement, before being acquitted by a jury and freed last spring. 
  
 After just half a day of testimony before Judge William Mogulescu in the Bronx, Candie Hailey, 32, agreed to plead guilty to four counts of disorderly conduct, a noncriminal violation, and prosecutors dismissed a felony and three misdemeanors related to her tumultuous time behind bars. 
  
 "I feel great," said Hailey, whose time at Rikers and subsequent struggles to return to society were documented earlier this year by The Associated Press. "But I wouldn't have ever had to agree to lesser charges of disorderly conduct if I hadn't been there in the first place." 
  
 Hailey, who was diagnosed with borderline character disorder, mood disorder and anti-social personality disorder while locked up, had faced up to seven years in prison for allegedly breaking a chair used to scan inmates' body cavities for contraband. She was also facing misdemeanor charges of harassment, obstructing government administration and assault. 
  
 She was arrested in 2012 and charged with attempted murder after three women accused her of stabbing a baby during a fistfight. Hailey said she was the victim in the case and that the infant, who suffered a hairline skull fracture and needed three stitches, was injured when the stroller was knocked over by one of the women. 
  
 Her ensuing stay at Rikers was chaotic. 
  
 Of her first 29 months in jail, Hailey served about 27 of them in 23-hour isolation for breaking jailhouse rules and was frequently involved in confrontations and scuffles with guards. She regularly hurt herself by banging her head against her cell wall or cutting at her wrists with broken light fixtures. And at least eight times during her time in solitary, she was hospitalized for suicide attempts that included swallowing a hair remover product. 
  
 Criminal justice experts have said Hailey's defiance was a common reaction to the continued use of solitary confinement for difficult inmates, especially those with mental health problems. 
  
 She was acquitted last year after a monthlong trial. 
  
 On Monday, a jail captain testified that she only heard, but did not see, Hailey break a piece off the security chair while her cell was being searched. Hailey's lawyer, Patrick Higgins, questioned how his client could have damaged the device while her hands were covered with protective mitts designed to keep her from grasping anything. 
  
 Inmate advocates and Hailey's supporters had asked the newly elected district attorney, Darcel Clark, to dismiss charges against Hailey, arguing she had been through enough. 
  
 Hailey had been offered a plea deal with time served before trial but rejected it, a spokeswoman for Clark said. Hailey said she refused to plead guilty to any of the criminal charges. ||||| Image: AP 
  
 Plenty of people are chewed up and spit out by American prisons all the time. Few of them are chewed up, spit out, bitten into, swirled around, digested, regurgitated, and eaten yet again quite like Candie Hailey has been in the last several years. 
  
 Hailey spent three years in Rikers Island awaiting trial after being arrested for attempted murder in 2012. She maintained that she was a victim in the scuffle for which she was charged, and the court agreed with her, finding her not guilty in 2015. By that point, damage had already been done. Hailey’s jail term was characterized by psychological torment and outbursts at guards, and she spent nearly two entire years in solitary confinement. “My soul died,” she later told the Associated Press of her time in jail. 
  
 Now, she may go back to jail for crimes she allegedly committed while imprisoned for those initial charges—charges of which she was found innocent. As of this week, Hailey is back on trial, this time for allegedly breaking a chair used to scan inmates’ body cavities at Rikers, the AP reports. She’s charged with felony criminal mischief—which carries a sentence of up to seven years in prison—as well as several misdemeanors. 
  
 And indeed, Hailey—who has been diagnosed with several mental disorders including borderline character disorder—had a chaotic and sometimes violent stay at Rikers during her three-year stint awaiting trial. She attempted suicide several times, and regularly cut her wrists and banged her head against her cell wall. In February, she described to the AP the perverse strategy she adopted for escaping solitary: Misbehave badly enough to be sent up to temporary mental health treatment, only to be eventually sent back to solitary for the misbehavior that got her out. “I would take the feces and I put it all over me. I said, ‘If you’re gonna treat me like a dog, I’m gonna act like one,’” she said. 
  
 To extend her canine metaphor: by trying Hailey today, New York is acting like an owner who beats his dog, then stomps on its head for crying too loudly. Candie Hailey had her life completely wrecked by years being of punishment for a crime she didn’t do. She shouldn’t be punished again just because she didn’t take it with a smile. |||||

Candie Hailey's horrific experience with Rikers Island—which included solitary confinement, suicide attempts, and smearing feces on herself—has finally ended in a plea deal, the AP reports. The 32-year-old pleaded guilty to non-criminal charges Monday for her behavior at Rikers, where she served 29 months awaiting a trial where she was found not guilty last year. "I feel great," Hailey says in the Bronx. "But I wouldn't have ever had to agree to lesser charges of disorderly conduct if I hadn't been there in the first place." Hailey, who spent 27 months in solitary at Rikers and attempted suicide there at least eight times, faced a possible seven year sentence for confronting guards and breaking a jailhouse chair. Now she's free, but says her life is badly damaged. Hailey was charged with attempted murder in 2012 when three woman claimed she had stabbed a 4-month old baby during a fistfight, the AP reported in February. Hailey argued she was the victim and said one of the women injured the baby by knocking over its stroller in the fight. Awaiting trial at Rikers, she was diagnosed with three personality disorders during "a chaotic and sometimes violent stay," says Gawker. She also developed a strategy of acting out to get out of solitary: "I would take the feces and I put it all over me," says Hailey. "I said, 'If you're gonna treat me like a dog, I'm gonna act like one.'" Now free, she has struggled to reconnect with family and get reliable housing. "I would say I've been through hell and back," she says. "My soul died but my body is alive."