Consoling a crying inmate violated a policy against touching other inmates, she claimed, and solitary confinement was the ... to themselves as the “women in white.” (Credit: Marci Marie ...

White, who spent four years in solitary, said many other ... another smeared feces along the walls of her cell. Others screamed. “Confinement drives a person insane,” said White, now the ...

Correctional officer Travis, who has worked in solitary confinement for 12 years, expresses a similar sentiment. “You don’t realize how stressful it is inside the walls,” he said.

The lawsuit accuses the prison of placing inmates in solitary confinement in a manner that leaves them unable to challenge said placement. Inmates have reportedly attempted suicide, punched walls ...

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades ... helped dehumanize those housed within its walls. They were kept away from their loved ones, but also ...

On Monday, the communications director of Assemblymember Chris Holden (D-Pasadena) sent a press release with the news that AB 280, a bill that sought to limit the use of solitary confinement in state ...

Albert Woodfox, an activist and author who spent more than 43 years in solitary confinement in a Louisiana ... I lightly box the walls. My knuckles have calluses on them from boxing the wall.