You might have this idea of what solitary confinement is like based on the movies: a dark hole where someone is isolated for ...

While there is no universally agreed upon definition, modern solitary — also called supermax or the box — is commonly understood to involve confinement to a small cell for 22 to 24 hours a day.

The son of prominent Hong Kong former publisher Jimmy Lai, who is facing possible life imprisonment in the Chinese city, has ...

After eight years in “the hole” at Texas’ Lane Murray Unit, Kwaneta Harris documents the “daily reality” of staff sexual ...

As serial killer Robert Maudsley goes on hunger strike, the Mirror looks at Britain's longest-serving prisoner's lonely life ...

Socorro County has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who alleges he was forced to live surrounded by his own waste in a county jail cell with no running water for weeks, ...

We would gather at my father’s house, eat radish cakes and joke about who had gained the most weight during the holidays.

“This idea of solitary confinement was greatly exaggerated and it’s not true ... He said there are four units with 12 cells each inside most prisons. He said the inmates sent there have a regular cell ...

activists have said they believe the men had been locked in their cells. “While these rouge officers engage in an illegal ...

The plaintiff alleged he was kept in a filthy cell with no running water for weeks after being arrested on low-level charges.