A State law sharply limiting solitary confinement in the prisons was suspended during prison guards’ wildcat strike earlier ...

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 ...

The ferry ride out to Alcatraz Island is, as ever, peak San Francisco cold. Even on this sunny June day, it’s cold. Even with ...

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

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

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

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 … ...

Lisa Adams filed the lawsuit after she was placed in solitary confinement in what is commonly referred to as a dry cell for 16 days. Dry cells have no toilet or running water.

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

Inmate Dies at N.Y. Prison as Corrections Officers’ Strike Continues The 61-year-old man was found unresponsive in his cell at Auburn Correctional Facility, one of dozens of state prisons where ...

His legal team claims he started to feel "faint" and "dizzy" after being given "an amount of medicine that could have killed him." ...