Frequency and length of stay in a Care and Protection Residence’s Secure Care Unit: May – October 2016 60 50 Number of occurences 48 40 30 16 20 10 8 2 2 0 < 12 hours 1 day 2 days 3 days 4 days Seven of the twenty children housed in the Secure Care Unit had between 4 and 14 spells at the unit, together accounting for 54 of the occurrences. This finding is similar to findings on the use of solitary confinement in other contexts, demonstrating that people who experienced solitary confinement are more likely to experience it again (see for example the Office of the Director of Mental Health(2015) discussed above.) Frequency and length of stay in Youth Justice Residence's Secure Care Unit: May – October 2016 70 58 60 50 Number of occurences 40 27 30 20 10 5 5 7 4 days 5 days 0 1 day 2 days 3 days 1 1 6 days 7 days 5 11 days Stays in the Secure unit in Te Puna Wai o Tuhinapo Youth Justice residence, tended to be longer. Between May and October 2016, 54 young people were housed in the Secure Care unit on 108 different occurrences, together spending 307 days in the Secure Care unit. 29