According to recent findings from the Survey of Youth in Residential Placement, more than one-third of youth in custody (35 percent) report being isolated — locked up alone or confined to their room with no contact with other residents. The vast majority of youth who were isolated (87 percent) say this was for longer than 2 hours and more than one-half (55 percent) say it was for longer than 24 hours. Locking youth under the age of 16 up in solitary confinement for more than 24 hours violates all best practices that these detention centers and prisons are supposed to abide by.

The report which was published by the OJJDP puts it this way:

“some may find SYRP findings on the prevalance of solitary confinement both surprising and problematic.”

To say the least…