The Smithian · '...Researchers also documented demographic disparities in those subject to solitary confinement, recording that juveniles, the elderly, the substance-dependent and the mental ill were particularly prone to routine extreme isolation, in addition to black prisoners. According to the report, nearly 59 percent of prisoners in extreme isolation are black. And the NYCLU tallied up the considerable financial toll solitary confinement took on the state, noting that the operation of two extreme isolation prisons alone cost $76 million a year to operate.'

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October 2nd, 2012

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'...Researchers also documented demographic disparities in those subject to solitary confinement, recording that juveniles, the elderly, the substance-dependent and the mental ill were particularly prone to routine extreme isolation, in addition to black prisoners. According to the report, nearly 59 percent of prisoners in extreme isolation are black. And the NYCLU tallied up the considerable financial toll solitary confinement took on the state, noting that the operation of two extreme isolation prisons alone cost $76 million a year to operate.'

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