As I woke up for my daily job as a prisoner at the Washington State Reformatory, I drank a cup of freeze-dried coffee and watched the local morning news. One story instantly caught my attention: The ...

New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams is trying to have it both ways: supporting the use of solitary confinement in city jails without using the term and accepting the current mayoral administration’s ...

New York lawmakers have been presented with a litany of proposed changes to a 2021 solitary confinement law that helped fuel ...

Immigration detention centers are holding more people in solitary confinement than had been believed, and the practice is growing. New data show thousands more immigrants were held in solitary ...

Despite a number of state reforms over the past decade, nearly 50,000 people were held in solitary confinement in prison systems across the country last year, according to a report released Wednesday.

How can we claim to be a society built upon laws when we allow prisons to continue this cruel practice? Credit: Getty Images. Twenty-five people died by suicide in New York state prisons in 2024. That ...

Locked in a solitary confinement cell with little more than a bed sheet, David Whittington did what several others have done in recent years. He grabbed the sheet, wrapped it around his neck and ...

A new legal challenge aims to sharply curtail the use of solitary confinement as discipline in Oregon prisons — arguing the practice is cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the U.S.

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