An activist built a model cell to illustrate conditions of solitary confinement. An activist who served time at Waupun Correctional Institution built and displays a model cell to illustrate conditions ...

Locked in a solitary confinement cell with little more than a bed sheet, David Whittington did what several others have done in recent years. He grabbed the sheet, wrapped it around his neck and ...

The class action in Manhattan federal court alleges that toilet restrictions are so severe within the five detention center, ...

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 ...

He wasn’t sentenced to madness. But that’s what being isolated in a cell 23 hours a day did to him. Getty Images For 16 years, I lived in a concrete cell. Twenty-three hours a day, every day, for more ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shelby County Mayor Lee ...