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

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

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

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

New York teens held inside the state’s adolescent detention centers are routinely kept locked in cramped quarters without ...

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 ...

A federal class action civil rights lawsuit has been filed challenging the routine use of solitary confinement against youth ...

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

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 ...

Grace United Church of Christ, 1947 New Holland Pike, Lancaster, is hosting Prison Ministry Weekend Friday through Sunday. The community is invited to join Grace as the church seeks to raise awareness ...