“We wanted the definition so we could talk about policy, we didn’t want the definition to be the policy," said Jan Collins, assistant director of the Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition. (DSGPro/Getty ...

When Massachusetts lawmakers passed a sweeping criminal justice reform bill in 2018, advocates and state officials hailed it as a significant accomplishment. But one legislator who helped draft the ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and key lawmakers at the Capitol are struggling to find a consensus over solitary confinement reform, and there are few solutions in sight. Assemblyman Chris Holden, ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Solitary confinement is still "widely used" in Washington prisons, despite an agency promise to reduce its use over the next five years. That's according to a report released Thursday ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) - The 16-year-old won’t tell his mom much about the days he spends locked alone in a room. He falls silent when his mother, Richetta Lowman, brings it up over the ...

For the second year in a row, there’s an effort underway to reform and significantly reduce the use of solitary confinement in California. Last year, a version of the California Mandela Act gained ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — A private immigration detention facility along the San Diego-Mexico border held a migrant woman in solitary confinement for over two years, a new report reveals. Researchers with ...