Restrictive Housing : Restrictive Housing Introdu

Restrictive HousingName:Institutional affiliationRestrictive HousingIntroductionThe American correction department has two kinds of facilities; jails and prisons. Jails are detention facilities that hold smaller number of inmates with pending trials, misdemeanours or awaiting transfer to other facilities. Prisons on the contrary, hold inmates convicted of more serious offenses for a period of one year or more. While an inmate is under confinement, he or she may end in a special area known as the restrictive housing. This refers to a place where inmates are segregated from the rest of the prison population. While in restrictive housing, prisoners’ movement and general privileges are limited. Report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics has shown that about 20 percent of all inmates end in restrictive housing in state and federal jails and prisons. The biggest proportion of this number is composed of violent offenders. The number was higher in prison than jails. Segregation does not have impact on mental healthResults of a study conducted by Bulman, Garcia and Hernon, and published by the National Institute of Justice Journal No. 269 indicated that, solitary confinement did not have any negative impact on