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 ...

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

Attorneys for a Bernalillo County woman have filed a lawsuit accusing New Mexico Corrections Department of breaking state law by holding her in solitary confinement for months in what she described as ...

Erin Patterson’s existence inside a tiny cell at Melbourne’s all women’s maximum security prison has been described as ...

A report from Yale Law School that questioned U.S. prison systems found that in the summer of 2021, nearly 50,000 men and women were held in solitary confinement in the U.S. As the Guardian reported, ...

He wasn’t sentenced to madness. But that’s what being isolated in a cell 23 hours a day did to him. Getty Images For 16 years, I lived in a concrete cell. Twenty-three hours a day, every day, for more ...

Yet, since 2020, about half of all suicides the prison system reported occurred in solitary confinement cells. This at a time when deaths by suicide in North Carolina prisons have increased in recent ...