Prison officials said 51-year-old Lamont Mealy died of 'natural causes.' His family’s lawsuit says guards intentionally shut ...

Solitary confinement, the practice of putting someone in isolation in a small cell, is not a topic you expect to hear discussed at church on Sunday. But on Oct. 12, at the Madison Christian Community, ...

Thodex founder Faruk Fatih Ozer found dead in Turkish prison while serving 11,196-year sentence for crypto fraud.

In declarations, more than a dozen people housed in San Diego County jails describe inhumane conditions and say they are alone in isolation cells for at least 23 hours a day.

Nicolas Sarkozy’s fellow inmates filmed themselves taunting him and threatening to avenge the death of Muammar Gaddafi.

Ohio inmate Tommy Meadows won a $404,000 jury award in a civil rights lawsuit. Meadows was pepper sprayed and put into ...

Officials are investigating the possibility that a "clerical error" at SCI Camp Hill placed an inmate, designated for solitary confinement, with another prisone ...

Otter Tail County will pay a former inmate who was deprived of food, water and medical care $200,000 and will change several ...

A lawsuit claims that two areas in the New York City jail are designed so that detainees are effectively in solitary confinement, in violation of state law. By Hurubie Meko Since January, Jerry Young ...

Hyderabad: A former top Maoist has been on a hunger strike in solitary confinement at Cherlapally Central Prison since October 28, demanding the basic freedom to walk within the barracks premises.

It’s been a month since mushroom murderer Erin Patterson learned she'd spend the rest of her life in a cell "smaller than our toilets".

Kettle is an Otter Tail County resident and a tribal member of White Earth Nation. He had been arrested several times, and ...