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.

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 ...

An inmate reads inside the Harris County jail, Thursday, March 29, 2018, in Houston. An inmate stands inside the Harris County jail, Thursday, March 29, 2018, in Houston. Inmates who have either just ...

Last spring, Devon Davis says, he was riding in the passenger seat of his early-2000s-model Lexus with a friend when Raleigh police pulled them over. There was a gun in the vehicle. Davis said it ...

Prison officers are failing to put some of Britain’s most dangerous inmates into solitary confinement over fears of challenges by human rights lawyers.

The family of Karim Talib, an 82-year-old man with dementia who died this year in the San Diego Central Jail, says in a new federal civil rights lawsuit that sheriff’s deputies and jail medical staff ...

The Oregon Department of Corrections has agreed to pay $2.3 million to settle a wrongful death and negligence suit filed by the mother of a man who died by suicide while in solitary confinement at a ...

A federal judge in San Diego has denied a request from attorneys in a class-action lawsuit to bar the Sheriff’s Office from housing people with serious mental illness in administrative separation, a ...

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 ...