This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. Journalist Ihar ...

A New York judge temporarily blocked New York’s corrections department from rolling back a law limiting the use of solitary ...

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

A prisoner convicted in connection with Morocco’s high-profile “Shamharouch Cell” terror case has died in custody, the local ...

In my job, I work to reintegrate formerly incarcerated people back into society. I often see the harsh conditions they live in, like juveniles being in their overcrowded cells 24/7. I hear about their ...

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

A retired Nicaraguan military officer, Aníbal Rivas Reed, has been sentenced to 50 years for treason in what his family calls ...

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

Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...

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 ...

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

The number of solitary confinement cells fluctuate weekly, depending on the prison system’s needs, Acree said. Some of these cells hold the state’s most violent people. But other inmates in ...