This webpage provides information to correctional agencies regarding safe and respectful management of restrictive housing populations. The use of restrictive housing has varied over time due to factors such as prison overcrowding and an increase in violent and disruptive inmates.
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A form of housing for inmates whose continued presence in the general population would pose a serious threat to life, property, self, staff or other inmates, or to the security or orderly operation of a correctional facility.
Over the past decade there have been numerous and impassioned calls to reform the practice of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons.
This Overview previews some of the findings in this Report. Before turning to key facets, the contours and limits of the data collection need to be explained.