An effort to define solitary confinement in Maine law failed to receive a vote in the Legislature this session amid ...
"Prisons exist to punish and rehabilitate people — not to torture and destroy them," says the report from the Chicago Lawyers ...
Prisons are designed to punish people who break the law. They aren't expected to provide the same accommodations or services ...
A federal judge says Georgia prison officials have flagrantly violated a court order to reform conditions for inmates in ...
A grieving mother whose daughter died in jail took part in a day of action at the Wisconsin State Capitol to end solitary ...
JoeBill Munoz and Lucas Guilkey’s 'The Strike' is an involving chronicle of inmates’ struggle against a California prison’s ...
The D.C. Department of Corrections’ use of isolation is ineffective and harmful, especially for people experiencing suicidal ...
The US Supreme Court will not hear the appeal of inmate Michael Johnson, who was held in solitary for three years.
In 'The Strike,' directors Joebill Munoz and Lucas Guilkey chronicle a 2013 prison hunger strike that changed imprisonment ...
New legislation seeks to change the policies surrounding solitary confinement. “We’ve seen in study after study and in state ...
Two senators have introduced legislation to combat the use of solitary confinement in immigration detention facilities.
The SMU houses some of the state's most violent offenders in solitary confinement under conditions that one expert found risked causing psychological harm. “Despite clear and unambiguous ...