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 ...

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 ...

The Legal Aid Society released a report on the effects of the 22-day strike by correction officers at prison facilities run ...

Last year, the Legal Aid Society, Disability Rights Advocates, and Winston & Strawn LLP filed a class action lawsuit against ...

Former correction officers returned to the Capitol Thursday with a quieter message, trading protest signs for calls to reform — not repeal — New York’s HALT Act, which limits solitary confinement.

Jan. 6 defendants across the country are now advocating for improved conditions and rights for those who are incarcerated.