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 ...

In Stanley Prison, the oldest in Hong Kong, Jimmy Lai sits in a dark, windowless cell, completely alone. He has been held in ...

A young man left with serious psychiatric issues after a fatal crash involving his friend has spent over 20,000 hours in solitary confinement in a hospital.

The lawsuit, filed last week in federal court in Manhattan, claims that state officials use solitary confinement for minor misbehavior and as a way to mitigate low staffing. By Hurubie Meko Garrett, a ...

Mayor Mamdani has ordered city corrections officials to come up with a plan to bring NYC jails into compliance with a law that banned solitary confinement on Rikers Island that had sparked strong ...

Mayor Eric Adams on Friday vetoed a bill banning most forms of solitary confinement in city jails. The bill was approved by the City Council in December. It does allow the Department of Correction to ...

MORE ON THE JOURNEY TO JUSTICE TOUR. IMAGINE A CONFINED SPACE. IMAGINE LOSING TRACK OF TIME. IMAGINE LOSING THE FEELING OF HUMAN CONNECTION, OR JUST HEARING PEOPLE’S VOICE LIKE THE SOUNDS ARE ...

Children at Shelby County’s juvenile detention center are allegedly held in solitary confinement for extended periods. Tennessee law prohibits holding children in seclusion for more than two ...

A federal judge has barred the Mary Davis Detention Home from using solitary confinement as punishment. The ruling came after teenage residents filed a lawsuit alleging abusive practices and ...

The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision’s Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement Act Committee released recommendations to amend the law to make it easier to make ...

How can we claim to be a society built upon laws when we allow prisons to continue this cruel practice? Credit: Getty Images. Twenty-five people died by suicide in New York state prisons in 2024. That ...

A new study warns that the number of immigrants being put in solitary confinement is increasing under the Trump administration. Getty Images/iStockphoto UPDATE: This article was updated the morning of ...