Prisoners in Kansas and Missouri are placed in restrictive housing, including solitary confinement, at higher rates than the national average, according to a report released Tuesday. Solitary confinement, which is sometimes referred to as administrative segregation, is a “day to day assault on the mind and soul,” Antwann Johnson, a prisoner at Jefferson City Correctional Center in Missouri, told The Star. Some men could not handle the lights being on all day, Johnson said. Others were called racist names by guards. A few resorted to killing themselves, he recalled. Nationally, more than 122,000 people were in restrictive housing for 22 hours or more on a given day in mid-2019, the report found. The report was put together by Solitary Watch, a nonprofit watchdog group, and Unlock the Box, a campaign advocating for the end to solitary confinement. Across the U.S., about 6% to 7% of prisoners were in restrictive housing in state and federal prisons. In Kansas, though, that figure wa...