Lawmakers claim they've received reports from parents and advocates of prolonged lockdowns, solitary confinement and a lack ...

Part 2 of this series looks at the forms of mental health care and support that can help people who have been subjected to ...

Stephen Kidd, 53, (pictured) was jailed in 2009 for his part in the brutal murder of 60-year-old Darren Presley, who was ...

Texas state prisons incarcerate more than 4,500 people in two-person cells the size of a parking space for nearly 24 hours a ...

Report finds racial disparities in New York law allowing involuntary treatment for mental health. Solitary confinement survivors seek change.

What some of you don’t know is that I spent 10 months in solitary confinement. Whenever anybody finds this out the first ...

Solitary confinement can cause severe psychological impacts and the U.N. considers it torture. Yet prolonged isolation ...

Sostre laid a foundation for contemporary Black anarchism and prison abolition. A new biography finally tells his story.

The Legal Aid Society released a report Friday, detailing the ongoing and immense damage inflicted upon incarcerated New ...

Unwise and unsafe,” DOC Commissioner Tom Schnell said about a bill to ban solitary confinement in Minnesota’s jails and ...

Authorities in Iran have launched an ‘intensified crackdown’ on the human rights of women and girls, activists say ...