After 51-year-old Lamont Mealy was found dead in a Maryland prison cell, officials called it “natural causes.” His family’s ...

The decision could force changes for all children and teenagers held at North Carolina’s largest juvenile detention center.

Separated from the general prison population, Texas death row inmates spend at least 22 hours a day alone in their cells.

As a forensic psychiatrist who testifies in court about the research-proven harm of solitary confinement, and a law professor ...

Data: Physicians for Human Rights analysis of ICE detention data; Note: Data from April to December 2024 may be an undercount due to lack of mandatory reporting; Map: Kavya Beheraj/Axios Immigrant ...

As the Trump administration sends unprecedented numbers of people into detention facilities, researchers and NGOs are raising alarms over an increase in the use of solitary confinement. Our Observer, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A Bay Area legislator wants to put controls on placing young people in solitary confinement in youth detention centers. Senator Mark Leno said it's cruel punishment, which does ...

U.S. Central District Judge Colleen Lawless granted a preliminary injunction to several teenage residents who filed a lawsuit ...

New York City's Rikers Island is one of the country's biggest jails: It houses about 12,000 adults, alongside hundreds of 16- and 17-year-olds. Many of these juveniles – most of whom have been charged ...

The “Journey to Justice” bus tour stopped in Ann Arbor Friday afternoon as part of a cross-country journey advocating for the ...

The United Nations deemed solitary confinement a form of torture, but the practice is being used in jails, prisons and ...

We are witnessing the geometric expansion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in the community, the crowding of correctional facilities with ICE detainees, and the rapid construction of ...