What does solitary confinement in immigration detention look like? Immigrants in solitary confinement are isolated in small cells without any human contact, often for 22 hours per day. In some ...

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

His family blamed Browder’s stay in solitary confinement, which they said ... of New York’s congressional delegation. Does it feel like the conversation around prison reform issues is changing?

But like most things with crime and punishment, it turns out solitary confinement is not that clear-cut. Shockingly, or perhaps not, this harshest of measures is often applied arbitrarily ...

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.

Solitary confinement ... union's pop up "like clockwork" after reforms. She noted that it's guards who report violent incidents and who have much of the control over how those numbers look.

The lawsuit claims the man endured two years of solitary confinement, leading to hallucinations and psychological harm.

Handling violent behavior within correctional settings is an unforgiving task. Correctional officers, prison administrators, and behavioral health staff alike will attest to this fact. From time ...

A September 2015 settlement in a class-action lawsuit limited long-term solitary confinement in California ... remember that criminal justice reforms like realignment sent non-violent offenders ...

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