This week on Behind The Lens, recent declines in solitary confinement had come because of human-rights activists like Kiana Calloway, and churches are being outfitted with backup and solar power to ...

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

The B.C. government has settled a class-action lawsuit for up to $60 million over the use of solitary confinement in provincial correctional facilities over a period of 20 years. The B.C. Supreme ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani put New York City’s troubled jail system on the clock to end solitary confinement — issuing yet another executive order to unravel his predecessor’s actions. Mamdani signed an ...

WISE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Earlier this week, a federal judge in the Western District of Virginia ruled that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Virginia’s class action lawsuit against Red ...

When a GoFundMe for a sick, stray cat at a Texas women's prison went viral and raised nearly $11,000, it felt like a feel-good story. Behind the scenes, however, a different story was playing out.

Three incarcerated men who feature prominently in the Oscar-nominated documentary The Alabama Solution have been moved into solitary confinement without explanation, according to filmmakers Andrew ...

Lil Durk was placed in isolation after reportedly being caught with an Apple Watch, which violated prison rules. Durk’s murder-for-hire trial, tied to the 2022 killing of Lul Pab, is now scheduled for ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is acting to adopt policies meant to improve conditions in city jails – ones that his predecessor Eric Adams fought tooth and nail to block, arguing they’d actually ...

The lawsuit, filed last week in federal court in Manhattan, claims that state officials use solitary confinement for minor misbehavior and as a way to mitigate low staffing. By Hurubie Meko Garrett, a ...