 There are over 80,000 men and women and children in solitary confinement in prisons and jails all across the country, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Oh, my goodness. Let me step it up once. How many people are in solitary confinement in the U.S.? There are more than 80,000 men, women, and children in solitary confinement in prisons across the United States. And the figures that we know are leading from it.