Without being insensitive to the particular hardships endured by trans people - I couldn’t imagine going through a US male prison as a trans woman - is this a trans over-representation issue, or a too often used solitary confinement issue? Or maybe both? I don’t see any data for non-trans people. Maybe I’m not looking hard enough at the article.
Idk the exact numbers, I could only find people in solitary at any given time or during a specific period, but 90% seems high. I did see research showing that Black people are over-represented in solitary, relative to prison populations. It’s pretty subjective who gets punished in what way, so I imagine officers’ biases are a big factor.
90% is excessive either way, and what you are saying all makes sense, it would just be more meaningful if the research was in contrast to other groups is all. Would hit harder I guess.
Without being insensitive to the particular hardships endured by trans people - I couldn’t imagine going through a US male prison as a trans woman - is this a trans over-representation issue, or a too often used solitary confinement issue? Or maybe both? I don’t see any data for non-trans people. Maybe I’m not looking hard enough at the article.
Ya, my first thought was that’s a semi useless number without a comparison and then skimmed the article to see if there was, but there wasn’t.
I have 0 doubts it’s way higher than the non trans population, but for all we know it’s 80% for everyone else.
Providing the proper numbers would also then let is say things like 4x more often or whatever it is.
I’d also be interested in a breakdown by region
Idk the exact numbers, I could only find people in solitary at any given time or during a specific period, but 90% seems high. I did see research showing that Black people are over-represented in solitary, relative to prison populations. It’s pretty subjective who gets punished in what way, so I imagine officers’ biases are a big factor.
But solitary is definitely overused in general
90% is excessive either way, and what you are saying all makes sense, it would just be more meaningful if the research was in contrast to other groups is all. Would hit harder I guess.