Mohammad Salahat spent a year and a half working in Pinckneyville’s solitary unit; what he witnessed was a warehouse for untreated mental illness.

A watchdog has new recommendations for how the Department of Corrections could make improvements. The agency continues to ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — The greenhouse at the W.J. Beal Botanical Garden isn't your average greenhouse. It was built to resemble a solitary confinement cell. The greenhouse at the W.J. Beal Botanical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Locked in a solitary confinement cell with little more than a bed sheet, David Whittington did what several others have done in ...

Luigi Mangione is under monitoring in a 9-by-7-foot federal solitary-confinement cell in Brooklyn. On Monday, he may be moved to the same protective unit as Diddy and SBF, who are in the same jail. A ...

A state judge in Albany granted a temporary injunction forcing New York State to fully implement a law sharply limiting solitary confinement in the prisons after elements of the law were suspended ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Based on movies you might picture solitary confinement as a dark hole where a prisoner is isolated for hours without light. While a correctional sergeant and an ex inmate gave ...

Alcatraz prison cell, solitary confinement, in Alcatraz, San Francisco, California In April, Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace marked a grim anniversary. The two Louisiana State Prison inmates, both ...

I was just 17 years old when I was sent to solitary confinement in “Camp J,” one of the most severe lockdown units at one of America’s most brutal prisons, the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.

Alexander Hernández, a Cuban asylum seeker detained at Eloy Detention Center, has been hospitalized without explanation after ...