Solitary confinement can cause severe psychological impacts and the U.N. considers it torture. Yet prolonged isolation ...

A lawsuit reveals that DOCCS is considering pausing solitary confinement law on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and any other day ...

Blackwell grew up in Tacoma and has been in prison since he was 22; he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 45 years in prison for taking the life of another person during a 2003 drug robbery.

I entered prison with problems. I left it with deeper wounds than I ever imagined because of my experience in solitary confinement. I was lucky enough to get out eventually and receive the psychiatric ...

The New York state prison system is abusing “emergency” authority to gut solitary confinement reforms indefinitely, a new class action lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit, filed by the Legal Aid ...

But, in the century and a half since, the court has sidestepped ruling on whether solitary confinement is, in fact, “cruel and unusual punishment.” The practice remains common in US prisons ...

I entered prison with problems. I left it with deeper wounds than I ever imagined because of my experience in solitary confinement. I was lucky enough to get out eventually and receive the ...

But, in the century and a half since, the court has sidestepped ruling on whether solitary confinement is, in fact, “cruel and unusual punishment.” The practice remains common in US prisons — to ...