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

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 ...

Longtime former RFE/RL journalist Ihar Karnei was arrested in July 2023 after the KGB came to his home in Belarus. Freed in a ...

Rights activists in Iran fear intensified crackdowns following Israel’s military campaign targeting Iran’s nuclear program ...

CHICAGO — With his mental state deteriorating as he sat in the crushing isolation of solitary confinement, a desperate inmate named Anthony Gay saw a temporary way out.

Rights activists in Iran fear intensified crackdowns following Israel's air campaign targeting Iran's nuclear program. On June 23, Israeli missiles struck Evin Prison, known for housing ...

When Yoshie Shiratori was locked up in Japan's notorious Abashiri prison in 1943, the guards were well aware of his ...

Accounts from inside Tehran's Evin Prison are as harrowing as they are rare — many of those locked up inside never make it out. Now Iranian officials say 71 people were killed in an Israeli strike ...

Mayor Eric Adams “violated” the law when he blocked the City Council’s ban on solitary confinement in Big Apple prisons, a ...

Mayor Eric Adams exceeded his authority when he used his emergency powers to block a new law banning solitary confinement in ...

At around 6 p.m. Thursday, five inmates, including the 27-year-old, intentionally set fires inside of their cells on a housing unit, according to the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services.