State prison guards say they are doing so because their jobs have become more dangerous. A New York Times analysis points to ...

A New York environmental activist stuck in an extreme isolation unit for writing letters and publishing articles — and then re-jailed for writing about being put in that isolation unit in the first ...

The bill, currently under consideration in the Senate, seeks to make four crucial amendments to the structured intervention units regime ...

Associate Warden Larry Williams is standing inside a small, cement prison cell. Everything is gray concrete: the bed, the walls, the unmovable stool. Everything except the combination stainless-steel ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretive housing units inside federal prisons in which prisoners are condemned to live in stark isolation from the outside world are unconstitutional, violate the religious rights ...

Amnesty International calls California’s confinement of 3,000 prisoners in isolation units "cruel, degrading and inhumane” in a report released Thursday. Corrections officials isolate inmates they say ...

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 ...

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