The class action suit claims five facilities under the State Office of Children and Family Services “routinely and unlawfully ...

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

“Inside Out” by Keri Blakinger is a partnership between NBC News and The Marshall Project, a nonprofit newsroom covering the U.S. criminal justice system. The column draws on Blakinger’s unique ...

Prison officials rarely allow journalists to walk through their prisons, and even rarer is the warden who lets a reporter into his solitary-confinement unit. The voices of the men and women confined ...

For more than 13 years, North Carolina prison inmate Jason Swain has spent the vast majority of his hours in concrete cells smaller than a parking space. Swain, who suffers from bipolar depression, ...

Adam Brulotte spent four months in solitary confinement for starting a riot on his cell block. He struggled to find a sense of normalcy after he was released and was arrested again. As a teenager, ...

As the use of solitary confinement in immigration detention centers increases under the Biden administration, according to the federal data, some Democratic-aligned lawmakers are demanding an end to ...

In this election year, the debate about immigrants entering the U.S. has taken on renewed urgency. But it's also important to pay attention to the conditions faced by those already within U.S. borders ...

A conversation with incarcerated journalist Christopher Blackwell about his new book Ending Isolation. An inmate looks out of his cell in the the Special Management Unit, known as high-max at the ...