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Texas sees solitary confinment numbers decline

Reporter Kevin Johnson at USA Today has a story titled "States start reducing solitary confinement to help budgets," June 13) which opens:State prison officials are reducing the number of offenders in solitary confinement ? once among the fastest-growing conditions of detention ? as budget pressures, legal challenges and concerns about the punishment's effectiveness mount. States such as Mississippi, Texas and Illinois have decreased the number of inmates in solitary confinement, a dramatic acknowledgement, analysts say, that states can no longer sustain the costs of hard-line criminal justice policies. ...The number of prisoners in solitary confinement ? typically locked away for 23 hours a day ? grew 40% from 1995 to 2000 when there were 80,870 segregated inmates, a study by The Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons found...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 14, 2010 (boomark / email).