South Carolinian Randy Poindexter writes about the effects 16 years of solitary confinement had on him ahead of South Carolina’s planned execution of Mikal Mahdi, who spent months in solitary as a ...

Zachariah Bacote says he still doesn’t know why he was stabbed at Bertie Correctional Institution in January. He also can’t figure out why correctional officers put him, the victim of an attack, in ...

A conversation with incarcerated journalist Christopher Blackwell about his new book Ending Isolation. An inmate looks out of his cell in the the Special Management Unit, known as high-max at the ...

Locked in a solitary confinement cell with little more than a bed sheet, David Whittington did what several others have done in recent years. He grabbed the sheet, wrapped it around his neck and ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — New York’s prisons face a human rights complaint filed with the United Nations. Filed this week, it coincides with the release of an oversight report on the Humane ...

Immigration detention centers are holding more people in solitary confinement than had been believed, and the practice is growing. New data show thousands more immigrants were held in solitary ...

A new study warns that the number of immigrants being put in solitary confinement is increasing under the Trump administration. Getty Images/iStockphoto UPDATE: This article was updated the morning of ...

Pennsylvania is second in the nation behind Texas with the highest number of ICE detainees held in solitary confinement. Data from a new report by Harvard University researchers and Physicians for ...

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