New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has issued an emergency executive order to overhaul the city's approach to solitary ...

Statistics and advocates for incarcerated people both suggest that the use of solitary confinement at Allegheny County Jail has decreased markedly since a referendum restricting its use went into ...

The New York City mayor’s order to bring jails into compliance with BOC rules signals a new approach to one of the city’s ...

Every five days since he took office, like clockwork, former Mayor Eric Adams signed a temporary executive order extending a ...

Mayor Adams had fought the limits on solitary passed by the council. He vetoed the bill, then challenged the law itself in ...

Children as young as 12 are allegedly confined for weeks at a time with no education or human contact, a lawsuit claims.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani put New York City’s troubled jail system on the clock to end solitary confinement —  issuing yet another ...

Nearly 30 years after he stepped out of a dark cell, Hasshan Batts still lives with the memories of the two weeks he spent in solitary confinement. “I remember my family saying I was never the same,” ...

Adin Ross recently took to social media to comment on 6ix9ine's return to prison. In a livestream, the streamer claimed that ...

Concern about Allegheny County Jail’s use of solitary confinement continued at a jail oversight board meeting on Thursday. A legal opinion presented to the board suggests the jail is violating a voter ...