Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a ...

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

A Pennsylvania prison's practice of holding inmates in solitary confinement is inhumane and unconstitutional, according to a federal lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh.

The Mandela California Mandela Act, Assembly Bill 280, would greatly limit solitary confinement and enhance rehabilitation opportunities in California prisons, jails and immigration detention ...

And after a prison theft – during which I was accused of wrongdoing, but not involved – I was sent to solitary confinement and spent a year proving my innocence. Walking out to see ...

According to a recent prison census, around 75,505 people are incarcerated in solitary confinement on any given day in America’s prison systems. As it sounds, the practice entails the isolation ...

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

Like other survivors, however, he cannot separate his years in prison from his experience of “long term, repetitive solitary confinement.” It was even harder being around strangers.

Officers, including those at North Country prisons, Clinton ... and which inmates, can be put in solitary confinement. Inmates over the age of 55 or under the age of 21 cannot be subjected ...

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These provisions are referred to as the “Mandela Rules” after Nelson Mandela, who endured 26 years in prison in apartheid South Africa and came to describe solitary confinement as “the most ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Solitary confinement is still "widely used" in Washington prisons, despite an agency promise to reduce its use over the next five years. That's according to a report released ...