"Over 122K prisoners held in solitary confinement in U.S. per new report"

A new report by Solitary Watch and Unlock the Box, based on the most recently available government data, estimates that about 122,840 people in federal and state adult prisons and federal and local jails were placed in restrictive housing, or solitary confinement, for 22 hours or more on a given day in mid-2019, amounting to about 6% of the total U.S. prison and jail population at the time. The report is the first of its kind and aims to become a benchmark for tracking the practice, as cities, states, and the federal government weigh how to limit its use. The report also highlights the disproportionate impact of solitary confinement on Black, brown, and Indigenous people.