97 Percent of DC's Prisoners in One Type of Solitary Confinement Are Black

At least 66,000 inmates in state and federal prisons were held in some form of solitary confinement last year, according to a report released Wednesday by corrections officials and researchers from Yale Law School, according to the Huffington Post. 

Corrections officials say prolonged isolation is a "grave" problem and they seek to limit or end it

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