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 ...

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

Belarusian dissident Siarhei Tsihanouski says he was held in solitary confinement, in conditions similar to torture, during ...

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.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris announced plans to sign an executive order ending solitary confinement at the Shelby County Department of Corrections. Harris says he plans to … ...

I HAVE BEEN IN PRISON for more than 30 years. When I came to prison, the corrections goal was isolation, retribution, and ...

The singer was placed in solitary confinement following an emergency motion for him to be put on home detention.

Human rights groups say the prison is a symbol of repression. ... The 61-year-old man was found unresponsive in his cell at Auburn Correctional Facility, ... News about Solitary Confinement, ...

R. Kelly collapsed in prison after an alleged overdose while in solitary confinement. His lawyer claims it was a life-threatening dosage and part of a broader conspiracy to kill him, citing a ...

Israel’s strike on Evin — targeting, it said, “repressive authorities” — spread panic among families of the political ...