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.

Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running effort that has seen fits and starts of legislation and court cases ...

Survey of people held in solitary confinement reveals its devastating psychological impact Part 1 of a series This two-part guest essay comes from Solitary Watch, a nonprofit watchdog organization ...

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

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 ...

Zachariah Bacote says he still doesn’t know why he was stabbed at Bertie Correctional Institution in January. He also can’t figure out why correctional officers put him, the victim of an attack, in ...

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

Locked in a solitary confinement cell with little more than a bed sheet, David Whittington did what several others have done in recent years. He grabbed the sheet, wrapped it around his neck and ...

Prison officers are avoiding placing some of Britain’s most dangerous extremist inmates in solitary confinement amid fears of ...