Solitary confinement can cause severe psychological impacts and the U.N. considers it torture. Yet prolonged isolation ...

Unwise and unsafe,” DOC Commissioner Tom Schnell said about a bill to ban solitary confinement in Minnesota’s jails and ...

Authorities in Iran have launched an ‘intensified crackdown’ on the human rights of women and girls, activists say ...

The United Nations Committee Against Torture has condemned the United States for its use of solitary confinement and lack of data on the practice. Florida Senate Bill 1758 and House Bill 1061 ...

Injustice sat down with Kwaneta Harris, an incarcerated writer housed at the Lane Murray Unit, the largest women’s prison in ...

A woman who spent 16 days in an extreme form of solitary confinement in a Nova Scotia prison is now suing the federal ...

Anthony Gay knows what it’s like to have his freedom restricted, to crave human interaction, and to feel despair. But he ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Prison reformers want Minnesota to end its use of solitary confinement and improve conditions for inmates separated from the rest of the prison population. The commissioner ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Prison reformers want Minnesota to end its use of solitary confinement and improve conditions for inmates separated from the rest of the prison population. The commissioner ...