Prison

Why are gang members disproportionately placed in solitary confinement?

Nov. 15, 2016

Members of criminal gangs are disproportionately placed in restrictive housing when they are imprisoned in the United States, but the evidence supporting this practice is 鈥渨eak,鈥 says criminologist David Pyrooz, who advocates more rigorous research on whether widespread isolaton of gang members is based on the best evidence.