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

When President Donald Trump commuted the federal prison sentence of former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, it may have ...

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

In a unique alliance, prisoners at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center and California district attorneys are championing ...

Ohio's youth prisons face ongoing staff shortages, increased violence, and rising solitary confinement hours. Inspections at Indian River and Circleville juvenile correctional facilities revealed ...

Advocates say more must be done to keep it humane. Solitary confinement, called "segregation" or "special housing" by prison officials — called "the hole" by inmates — is generally used when ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Prison reformers want Minnesota to end its use of solitary confinement and improve conditions for inmates separated from the rest of the prison population. The commissioner ...

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 ...

An activist built a model cell to illustrate conditions of solitary confinement. An activist who served time at Waupun Correctional Institution built and displays a model cell to illustrate ...

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 ...