Last year, activists pushed for a referendum to ban solitary confinement in Lehigh County jail. The effort failed, but it started a discussion about the controversial issue.

Prison officers are failing to put some of Britain’s most dangerous inmates into solitary confinement over fears of challenges by human rights lawyers.

As its latest defense in an ongoing court battle, New York’s state prison agency is arguing that the core of a landmark solitary confinement reform law does not apply to the vast majority of the ...

The ACLU of Oklahoma and other organizations have successfully advocated for the end of indefinite solitary confinement for ...

An inmate reads inside the Harris County jail, Thursday, March 29, 2018, in Houston. An inmate stands inside the Harris County jail, Thursday, March 29, 2018, in Houston. Inmates who have either just ...

Last spring, Devon Davis says, he was riding in the passenger seat of his early-2000s-model Lexus with a friend when Raleigh police pulled them over. There was a gun in the vehicle. Davis said it ...

Teenagers as young as 12 years old in New York juvenile detention centers are held for prolonged periods in solitary confinement cells without plumbing, according to a lawsuit filed earlier this month ...

DOJ released fresh files including video of Jeffrey Epstein’s New York prison cell where he died in 2019. The footage shows his minimal solitary confinement unit, featuring a bed, a small table, and a ...