Solitary confinement is being challenged across the US due to its harmful effects on incarcerated individuals and its failure to improve prison safety, with studies and legal cases showing that it can ...

Ending prolonged solitary confinement is a matter of prison and public safety, as well as humanity. The time to act upon this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A committee formed after this year's strike by New York correction officers to review the use of solitary confinement in state ...

Rodney Reid recounts his experience in Rikers Island, describing the brutal conditions he endured during years spent in ...

The B.C. government has settled a class-action lawsuit for up to $60 million over the use of solitary confinement in provincial correctional facilities over a period of 20 years. The B.C. Supreme ...

State Sen. Saud Anwar, co-chair of the state’s Public Health Committee, recently made a rare request to the state Department of Correction. Listening to concerns from the community about the long-term ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- An inmate in solitary confinement at a California jail was refusing to leave his cell. The jailers' usual response: Send an "extraction team" of corrections officers to burst ...

A coalition of more than 50 advocacy organizations is urging New York lawmakers to scrutinize the state’s prison system, pressing for answers about alleged brutality, deaths behind bars and violations ...

Advocacy groups have published a letter to Governor Kathy Hochul and state legislators alleging ongoing staff violence within the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, and demanding ...

Tammi Gregg and Donna Lieberman of the American Civil Liberties Union wrote a column in The Washington Post of April 29, 2021 about the “torture” of prolonged solitary confinement and referred to it ...

A Denver judge ruled that the Colorado Department of Corrections has been violating an amendment to the state constitution by ...