From Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison LORNA A. RHODES
-One conclusion Rhodes reaches in her essay is that there is likely to be a greater proportion of mentally ill inmates in:

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Rhodes argues that the conditions of solitary confinement can worsen mental illness, and thus there is likely to be a greater proportion of mentally ill inmates in solitary confinement. While the general prison population may also have a significant proportion of mentally ill inmates, Rhodes specifically discusses the exacerbation of mental illness in solitary confinement. Minimum security prisons and halfway houses are not discussed in relation to the likelihood of mentally ill inmates.