A State law sharply limiting solitary confinement in the prisons was suspended during prison guards’ wildcat strike earlier ...

In a court order this week, Judge Daniel Lynch wrote that the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ...

A New York judge temporarily blocked New York’s corrections department from rolling back a law limiting the use of solitary ...

A group of Pennsylvania inmates have filed a federal lawsuit claiming solitary confinement is unconstitutional and has led to a ... small room with minimal furniture and no outside-facing windows.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will change prison solitary confinement rules to give inmates more time outside cells and in rehabilitation. ... “They can do the window dressing that they want.

Solitary confinement cells do not always have windows. The length of time that a person spends in solitary confinement varies greatly. Some people can spend hours or days in confinement, while ...

Detained immigrants spent an average of 27 days in solitary confinement, well beyond the 15 days that the U.N. considers torture, write Katie Peeler, Anand Chukka, Brian Benitez and Natalie Sadlak.

Of the 17 years that I’ve been incarcerated for killing an abusive boyfriend, I spent eight — from 2016 to last May — in what the state calls “restrictive housing,” but I call “solitary confinement” ...

A corrections officers’ union in New York is campaigning against new restrictions on solitary confinement—and it’s not the only union in the country opposing prison reforms.

Illinois needs this law on solitary confinement in prison It should be a no-brainer: Lawmakers should quickly pass a bill to require accurate data collection and transparency on solitary confinement.

Solitary confinement is costly, dangerous for inmates. ... FILE - An inmate looks out a window in his solitary confinement cell at the Main Jail in San Jose, Calif., on Dec. 16, 2019.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will change prison solitary confinement rules to give inmates more time outside cells and in rehabilitation. ... “They can do the window dressing that they want.