Many who’ve been through restrictive housing attest to extreme isolation and confinement in small, dark, windowless cells.

Members of criminal gangs are disproportionately placed in restrictive housing when they are imprisoned in the United States, but the evidence supporting this practice is “weak,” says criminologist ...

This Bureau of Justice Statistics report, "Use of Restrictive Housing in U.S. Prisons and Jails, 2011–12," presents some of the most up-to-date demographic data on inmates who spend time in ...

In the realm of corrections, restrictive housing, often termed solitary confinement, has garnered criticism from human rights advocates and the public alike — and rightly so. Our decades-long ...

Further, the number of restrictive housing placements and spending more than 14 consecutive days in restrictive housing were associated with further increase in the risk of death and re-incarceration.

Listen to Molina. A requirement that all inmates get a hearing before being placed in restrictive housing is terribly unwise. If someone is, say, slashing fellow detainees or correction officers ...

"Restrictive housing is a volatile setting, even for a correctional facility, and staff cannot be expected to determine which cellmates are safe and which ones are not in these circumstances." ...

Don’t restrict restrictive housing: Council bill to ban solitary needs work. Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News. Tue, September 20, 2022 at 8:10 AM UTC. 2 min read.