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 ...

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.

Suicides in state prisons have soared in the last several years, and solitary confinement is a leading contributor, a new report claims. According to the new report from two groups advocating against ...

Floro’s story through the system is not unprecedented — those who have documented and un-documented mental health struggles ...

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Prison agency seeks to dramatically narrow solitary confinement law Prison officials are using a novel legal reading to argue that the HALT Solitary Confinement Act doesn’t apply to units where most ...

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A viral fundraiser for a sick stray cat at a Texas women’s prison led to the temporary placement of inmate Sonya Reed in solitary confinement, but prison officials confirmed on January 21 that she has ...

President Obama arrives at the White House on Monday, after a trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Obama wrote an op-ed in Monday's Washington Post announcing new ...