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When prison inmates break the rules, they may be placed in solitary confinement—sometimes for 24, 48 or 72 hours. Although it is frequently criticized, disciplinary segregation is still widely used in ...

Mississippi prisoners begged for help. Some died in solitary confinement instead.

For decades, MDOC has regularly held incarcerated people in solitary confinement for weeks, months — and in some cases — ...

He wasn’t sentenced to madness. But that’s what being isolated in a cell 23 hours a day did to him. Getty Images For 16 years, I lived in a concrete cell. Twenty-three hours a day, every day, for more ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a consultant on white-collar crime and former convicted felon. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) ...

President Biden made many bold promises to reform the criminal justice system during his 2020 presidential campaign. Today, many of those promises remain unfulfilled. However, he still has time to ...

A Yale Law School report estimates that in 2021, 41,000 to 48,000 incarcerated people in the United States were isolated in cells the size of a compact parking space for 22 or more hours each day for ...

Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, who is serving a total of 19 years in prison on extremism and other charges, has been placed in a punitive solitary confinement for the 23rd time since ...