"Youth must ask to be released from their cells to use the bathroom or be forced to use garbage pails, water bottles, food ...

The Oregon Department of Corrections has agreed to pay $2.3 million to settle a wrongful death and negligence suit filed by ...

A state judge in Albany granted a temporary injunction forcing New York State to fully implement a law sharply limiting solitary confinement in the prisons after elements of the law were suspended ...

Kids in New York’s juvenile detention centers were placed in solitary confinement in tiny cells for up to 24 hours a day — some lacking fresh water and a bucket for a toilet — over minor infractions ...

Nathan Fagan's "Inside, The Valley Sings" is a devastating animation recounting the lives of three people held in solitary ...

Earlier this week, a federal judge in the Western District of Virginia ruled that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) ...

The New York City Department of Correction has regularly violated state law by illegally confining people in jail cells for over 24 hours at a time without access to proper medical care, a new lawsuit ...

After spending years in solitary confinement at Angola’s Camp J, Kiana Calloway now works to expose the lasting psychological ...

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 ...