spend in solitary. When it comes to the number of men in solitary, 5% of male prisoners were in solitary and 2% of women. In prisons when it comes to different races in solitary, there is 31% white males, 45% African American males and 21% Hispanic males; this data comes from data for 57,217 solitary prisoners from 43 jurisdictions(excludes Asians and other races.) The website also includes States with the highest percentage of prisoners in solitary, these states include: Louisiana(15%), Utah(14%), Nebraska(11%), New Mexico(9%) and the list continues with 6 other states and their percentage. The next set of percentages is the craziest for me, which is the different lengths of time and the percentages of prisoners that spent that amount of time. There is different amount of times, which include: 15 days-1 month(18%), 1-3 months(29%), 3-6 months(16%), 6 months-1 year(13%), 1-3 years(13%), 3-6 years(5%), and lastly 6 years(5%). There is evidence that it takes less than 3 days for a prisoners psyche to dwindle. The list of mental illnesses that are caused or worsened from Solitary is way longer than it should be.
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