"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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

The lawsuit alleges that despite multiple documented warning signs, Grayson Painter was placed in solitary confinement and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...