--- title: Solitary Confinement Has a Race Problem description: Solitary confinement has a race problem, computers will make the best literary critics someday and more. canonical: https://time.com/4593673/solitary-confinement-has-a-race-problem/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-07T17:00:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:15.786Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Solitary Confinement Has A Race Problem og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4593673/solitary-confinement-has-a-race-problem/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Solitary Confinement Has A Race Problem twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Solitary Confinement Has a Race Problem by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 7, 2016 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 7, 2016 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Solitary confinement has a race problem.**](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/race-solitary-confinement/509456/) By Juleyka Lantigua-Williams in the Atlantic **2\.** [**Computers will make the best literary critics someday.**](https://aeon.co/essays/how-ai-is-revolutionising-the-role-of-the-literary-critic) By Inderjeet Mani in Aeon **3\.** [**Why don’t we talk about radicalization for all terrorists?**](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/magazine/we-dont-talk-about-radicalization-when-an-attacker-isnt-muslim-we-should.html) By Jack Hitt in the New York Times Magazine **4\.** [**Facebook is asking users to rate the fakeness of the news they’re reading.**](https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/05/facebook-begins-asking-users-to-rate-articles-use-of-misleading-language/) By Devin Coldewey in TechCrunch **5\.** [**One company is finding great workers in the ranks of ex-offenders.**](http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/this-organic-food-company-doesnt-discriminate-against-ex-offenders-it-seeks-them-out-20161125) By Olivia Anderson in YES Magazine  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4593673/solitary-confinement-has-a-race-problem/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4593673/solitary-confinement-has-a-race-problem/"},"headline":"Solitary Confinement Has a Race Problem","datePublished":"2016-12-07T17:00:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:15.786Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4593673/solitary-confinement-has-a-race-problem/","keywords":["Innovation","facebook","Race","Terrorism","Computers"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4593673/solitary-confinement-has-a-race-problem/","name":"Solitary Confinement Has a Race Problem"}}]}] ```