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

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

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

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

Wakefield jail is home to some of the country's most depraved criminals and has a long history of housing our worst criminals ...

High-security jail HMP Wakefield is nicknamed 'Monster Mansion' because it is home to some of the country's most depraved ...

The Pennsylvania System came up with the idea of solitary confinement. The goal was to have prisoners contemplate their ...

A group of 55 state legislators sent a letter Tuesday to the state prisons commissioner urging him to discontinue the ...

Exclusive data obtained by 7.30 reveals the extent of lockdowns inside the maximum security Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, and it ...

The United Nations' minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners, called the Nelson Mandela Rules, define solitary confinement as isolation for more than 22 hours a day and say solitary confinement ...

Sooraj, son of actors Aditya Pancholi and Zarina Wahab, was arrested in June 2013 in connection with actress Jiah Khan’s death ...