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Study Tracks Decline in Use of Solitary Confinement as Reform Bill Stalls in U.S. Senate

by Lonnie Burton

A November 2016 report found that 67,000 prisoners were held in restrictive housing throughout the United States – also known as solitary confinement or segregation – in both state and federal facilities. The report was released soon after a group of U.S. senators introduced a bill in ...

 

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