The link between race and solitary confinement is glaring!

That is according to a report in the Atlantic that basically says, whites get it way easier and are thrown in the hole a hell of a lot less than blacks and latinos.

A new analysis from the Association of State Correctional Administrators and Yale Law School trlled over the data and gave some shocking numbers.

Judith Resnik, a professor at Yale Law School and one of the study’s authors said that:

“People of color are overrepresented in solitary confinement compared to the general prison population,”

“In theory, if race wasn’t a variable, you wouldn’t see that kind of variation. You worry. It gives you a cause to worry.”

The article in the Atlantic stated that:

The basis for the data is a 2015 survey on the use of solitary confinement in 48 jurisdictions, which represent about 96 percent of all prisoners: 45 states, the District of Columbia, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the Virgin Islands. Of those 48, 43 of them—representing 54,000 inmates—provided the surveyors with details on race.

The study concluded that, overall, black male prisoners made up 40 percent of the total prison population in those 43 jurisdictions, but constituted 45 percent of the “restricted housing population,” another way to describe those in solitary confinement. In 31 of the 43, the percentage of black men who spent time in solitary wasn’t proportional to their slice of the general population—it was greater. Latinos were also disproportionately represented in solitary: On the whole, 21 percent of inmates in confinement were Latino, even though this group constituted only 20 percent of the total population. Overall, in 22 of the 43 jurisdictions, Latinos were overrepresented in relation to their general-population numbers.

Shocking! Read more here on The Atlantic.