A Manhattan Supreme Court judge ruled that New York City Mayor Eric Adams' emergency orders suspending the HALT Act were ...

In a court order this week, Judge Daniel Lynch wrote that the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ...

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 ...

The prison agency has suspended solitary confinement restrictions since a corrections officers strike in February.

Critics say the jail’s cage-like enclosures constitute a form of solitary confinement that exacerbates mental illness and ...

The justices didn’t squash precedent that opens federal officials up to paying damages, but they failed to expand its ...

A prisoner convicted in connection with Morocco’s high-profile “Shamharouch Cell” terror case has died in custody, the local prison administration in Larache confirmed Tuesday. The inmate, identified ...

Nova Scotia resident Lisa Adams was kept for 16 days in a solitary room with no running water or flushing toilet under ...