But women make up a third of the work force and some companies are building special housing units for them.

Therapy programs have even been started at a few special housing units.

She spent another 160 days in the "special housing unit," what inmates call the box.

This isn't news to prison officials, who have been sued over special housing units in at least 10 states.

Women in the special housing unit are monitored regularly and given monthly therapy.

He did say the guards received "rough handling" by inmates as they were moved about the special housing unit during the day.

Ronnie often lives in the special housing unit the hospital has for its patients (and for some parents, too) during extended treatment.

Officially it is called the special housing unit; inmates call it "the box."

The guards then hauled the inmate to an elevator, the papers said, to take him to the special housing unit.

Jones was given more than a month in "the hole," or special housing unit, which she writes was, "like the next stop to hell."

And you've got the scum of the scum in the special housing unit."

Both men were taken immediately to the special housing unit, or "hole," and shortly thereafter transferred to a higher-level institution.

Still, Premo and other officers say they have no doubt that the special housing units have made prisons safer.

I knew from reading I'd done that construction had just been completed on a 110-bed Special Housing Unit.

Inmates who were involved are being held in the prison's Special Housing Unit, awaiting disciplinary proceedings.

In this instance, the guards filed false reports claiming the inmate became "combative" on the way to the special housing unit, court papers said.

But attorneys, psychiatrists and legislators who have visited New York's special housing units describe the occupants in different terms.

In addition, all active and verified gang members should be removed from the general inmate population into a Special Housing Unit.

Special housing units are intended for the most violent inmates, but they also tend to collect those who are troublesome and mentally ill.

He vainly did so for the ninth time last December and remains in a special housing unit at a state prison north of Los Angeles.

The administrative and disciplinary unit, called the Special Housing Unit, can hold approximately 250 inmates.

Instead, authorities call the isolated cells where inmates are housed the SHU: special housing units.

One result is the increase of "special housing unit" cells, which confine inmates who violate prison regulations to 23 hours a day of confinement.

While operated by the province of Alberta, the facility housed a Special Housing Unit.

A special tactics unit took control of the Special Housing Unit and freed the guard.