Special housing units that provide increased therapy for those incarcerated are more helpful than putting a person solitary ...

As North Carolina officials look to reduce their use of solitary confinement, several mentally ill inmates have killed ...

Prison authorities give solitary confinement names like administrative segregation (AdSeg), restrictive housing or management ...

A solitary confinement cell in Orange Correctional Center in Hillsborough. N.C. Department of Adult Correction The prison system previously used solitary confinement as a main tool to discipline ...

As chair of the inmate wellness committee at his prison, Dean Christopher Roberts was allowed to go cell to cell at Mission ...

The United Nation’s Mandela Laws defines solitary confinement as 22 hours or more a day “without meaningful human contact.” ...

Data reporter Gavin Off discusses solitary confinement, where individuals spend 22 hours a day in a cell. Research indicates it can worsen or create mental health issues, especially in North Carolina, ...

My 13th day in “the hole” has been an eye opener. This is the first time I’ve experienced it after 28 years in federal prison ...

Abubaker Adams, an alleged hitman, requests a return to communal living in Pollsmoor Prison, citing the depressive nature of ...

Last summer, Kenneth Barrett recalls spending 46 days — about half the summer — in solitary confinement at Algoa Correctional Center, a minimum security prison in Jefferson City, Missouri. In ...

In solitary there is often only the cell, which on any given ... done to keep it humane. Solitary confinement, called "segregation" or "special housing" by prison officials — called "the ...