Attorneys for a Bernalillo County woman have filed a lawsuit accusing New Mexico Corrections Department of breaking state law by holding her in solitary confinement for months in what she described as ...

State Sen. Saud Anwar, co-chair of the state’s Public Health Committee, recently made a rare request to the state Department of Correction. Listening to concerns from the community about the long-term ...

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.

Pike was moved out of what her attorneys argued was solitary confinement last year. Pike is the only woman on death row in Tennessee. One of the other people convicted alongside Pike goes up for ...

A new study warns that the number of immigrants being put in solitary confinement is increasing under the Trump administration. Getty Images/iStockphoto UPDATE: This article was updated the morning of ...

Immigration detention centers are holding more people in solitary confinement than had been believed, and the practice is growing. New data show thousands more immigrants were held in solitary ...

MORE ON THE JOURNEY TO JUSTICE TOUR. IMAGINE A CONFINED SPACE. IMAGINE LOSING TRACK OF TIME. IMAGINE LOSING THE FEELING OF HUMAN CONNECTION, OR JUST HEARING PEOPLE’S VOICE LIKE THE SOUNDS ARE ...

A conversation with incarcerated journalist Christopher Blackwell about his new book Ending Isolation. An inmate looks out of his cell in the the Special Management Unit, known as high-max at the ...

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

The number of people held in solitary confinement at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement centers has reached "unprecedented" levels in the past decade - and numbers are surging under the second ...