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

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

Last summer, Kenneth Barrett recalls spending 46 days — about half the summer — in solitary confinement at Algoa Correctional Center, a minimum security prison in Jefferson City, Missouri. In ...

Solitary confinement at two high-security prisons in far Southwest Virginia is used to “warehouse prisoners” in cells that were never needed, a federal appeals court was told Tuesday.

A class action lawsuit filed in federal court Monday seeks to halt solitary confinement at two of the state’s most secure prisons. The suit alleges that prisoners held in long-term solitary ...

Davis spent more than 100 days in solitary confinement at FCI Danbury, a federal prison in Danbury, Conn. (Screenshot via Courthouse News) WASHINGTON (CN) — The Senate took aim at solitary confinement ...

Last summer, Kenneth Barrett recalls spending 46 days — about half the summer — in solitary confinement at Algoa Correctional Center, a minimum security prison in Jefferson City, Missouri.

Violence flourishes at Montana's youth prison for boys, and staff use solitary confinement as a crutch to help curb it, according to a federally mandated civil rights watchdog. The Department of ...

and solitary confinement. The report details how short staffing has become a fact of life in some of the prisons. At Sussex State Prison, consultants found that “non-security staff are ...

Throughout the summer of 2024, six people in prison at Missouri’s Algoa ... hoping their lawsuit will spur action for those in solitary confinement and those with certain medical conditions ...