While in prison, incarcerated persons can be subjected to qualitatively different conditions of
confinement ranging from minimum to maximum security settings. In this study, we use data …

Despite concerns and debates about the policy of using extended solitary confinement for
managing individuals deemed to be too violent or disruptive to be controlled any other way …

This study focuses on gender disparities in defiance prison infractions—an understudied
and highly discretionary type of rule violation—which have important implications for …

Introduction As social animals, our health depends in part on interactions with other human
beings. Yet millions suffer from chronic social isolation, including those in nursing/assisted …

Although limited, extant research suggests that incarcerated women are more likely than
men to be placed in restrictive housing (eg, administrative or disciplinary segregation) for …

There are close to 100,000 people serving time in solitary confinement units in American
prisons and jails each day (Department of Justice (2016)). Three times that number are …

Custodial facilities, such as jails or prisons, are complex environments that are influenced
not only by their physical design, but by their residents—staff and inmates alike. As such, it is …

Le placement au pénal des mineurs auteurs d'infraction est une mesure encore méconnue
du grand-public. Pourtant, elle concerne chaque année une partie non-négligeable des …

Incarcerated women display extraordinary rates of poor mental health, often more so than
incarcerated men. Recent scholarship has established that the pains of imprisonment and …

Beginning in the 1970s, an ideological, political, and legal shift toward more punitive
policies to address crime occurred. The punitive turn can also be seen inside of prisons, and …